October 23, 2022
Huh, maybe not the safest idea but I was bound and determined to squeeze in a hike in the middle of a snow storm. What is the worst that could happen? I packed up some safety gear, food, water, and off I went with Moki up Buff pass. On the trail it looked like a few people had been out…
October 10, 2022
I squeezed in some nice hiking, mountain biking, and flying to take in the beautiful fall colors. The snow isn’t far off…
October 1, 2022
My daughter, who doesn’t have much free time due to grad school and training for the biathlon, and I still managed to squeeze in a 21 hour, 14 mile trip to the Lee Metcalf wilderness just outside of Bozeman. She found a trail she hadn’t hiked that just happened to be right where it looked to be raining. But by…
September 17, 2022
** See 2023 update below ** Our planned route of the WY BDR was Sections 1 to 6 (backwards from north to south). We skipped Sections 7 and 8 because we have spent a lot of time riding in the Big Horn mountains (they are fantastic) and instead would tack on part of the CO BDR. For this tour I…
September 16, 2022
Time for Mike to head home to Rapid City, blerg. It rained hard early in the morning and there was talk of skipping the ride over Buffalo pass in favor of taking the highway. But after breakfast it seemed manageable so we geared up and hit the trail. The conditions were better than expected and soon we were over the…
September 15, 2022
After missing the last part of Section 1 of the WYBDR, we hit the top section of the COBDR the next day. This had always been our plan, however instead of making it to Leadville for the night we would turn around in Gypsum due to heavy rain. I ride most of this trail a number of times each summer…
September 14, 2022
I give a detailed route description on this page if you are interested. With rain coming we crossed our fingers and hit the trails at 7:00am. First goal to get to Centennial, WY a hundred miles away. Once there we questioning if we could cross the Snowy Mountain range before getting wet. After a weather check we gave it a…
September 13, 2022
I give a detailed route description on this page if you are interested.
September 12, 2022
I give a detailed route description on this page if you are interested.
September 11, 2022
I give a detailed route description on this page if you are interested.
February 19, 2022
Our neighbor in Steamboat Essi is from Rovaniemi. She was a great help reaching out to friends for suggestions on what we should see and do while visiting Finland. Even better than that assistance was the offer to stay with her parents. How cool is that! The only challenge is that her Mom (Leena) doesn’t speak any English and her…
February 14, 2022
You know how some of those things you see on the internet look like amazing experiences and you jump on board before thinking it through? Yeah, this was one of those. On paper an Snow/Ice village sounds really fun. In reality it is fucking cold. I know, that is pretty obvious. We arrived at the SnowVillage around 2:00pm and were…