The High Country

Last summer, in 2024, I was gone so much that I hardly got to ride any of the trails in the high country near Durango. However, since I have been around here this whole summer, I have been able to do a lot of fun rides with all sorts of different people. 

In the past three weekends, the wildflowers have started to come out a lot more! When I rode Pass Creek to engineer two weeks ago, there was hardly any. Now, there are Indian paint brushes, columbines, and lots of other pretty flowers everywhere. 

It was a zoo up at Coal bank pass today, because of the Fourth of July. However, I was still able to enjoy the mountains, because it’s pretty easy to get away from the crowds on a bike. I tried to make it a point to look around and really take in the beauty of the mountains, because I do feel so lucky to be able to live here.

I rode Pass Creek to Coal with Stephi, Cassidy, and Stephi‘s friend Kelly. Then, Cassidy and I went back up pass Greek and down engineer. I really wanted to go at my own speed, so I just bombed down engineer and set a bunch of PR’s.

(Stephi, Cassidy, me, Kelly)

(Cassidy)