Spoke Junkie

Do you have a favorite time of day or a direction to ride your bike? Not really, if I can I ride a bike all year round - especially to commute to work or do errands. During the non-winter months around here it is simply too easy and enjoyable to…

During a recent drop down the Van Sickle Trail which I always enjoy as an evening after work ride just a little before sunset because the light is so awesome, we start noticing something really ugly. Right before almost every rock - and before every turn - some (I’m going…

Well, have you been out on any trails yet where the forest got burned? We rode the Corral Trail since it's the closest to us and always the busiest when the season is in full swing. If you have been there, how did that make you feel? Shocked, sad, lucky?…

I love winter storms. Big winter storms - and we just got a couple didn’t we. I’m sure everyone has heard by now that we broke, no, smashed a December snowfall record that was set in 1970, over seventeen feet. Yeehaw! Plus, we broke the October through December record for…

A couple of weeks ago, I had just finished a nice long climb and had set my bike aside to scramble up on a little rock outcropping to enjoy the view. A few minutes later two hikers appear from the other direction. Obviously hot and tired but so happy to…

That’s it, spring has sprung, full force even though…yes some of us are still skiing. I do love working it to the last drop, and no frenzy, sort of the opposite end of the spectrum from those who are out there for the first turns of the season, although we…

One of my absolutely most favorite things on this planet is snow and of course being able to play in it and on it. Something about that magic white blanket and the storms that bring it that make you feel like a kid again, and I don’t mean some silly…

When is it going to snow? So, do you think we are headed into a good season? When will the resorts be fully open? Is the backcountry skiable yet? Well of course these questions are the normal thought process going through any snowbrains out there this time of year. This…

You swing a leg over your bike and ask: “Okay, so where am I going?” That seems like a pretty common question to me, we all do that, well, hopefully we have that worked out a little before actually swinging a leg over. There is another question though, which hopefully…

Three skins (left) needing reglue, (middle) good modern climbing skin, (right) a real animal skin, probably cow, from the 1920s. This is the day you have been planning for weeks to climb that peak and ski a line you have never tried before; friends have made it to the gathering…