Roadtripping Colorado: All Downhill From Here

The scene: Trestle Mountain Bike Park for the Trestle All-Mountain Enduro. Winter Park, Colorado is the resorty-est of resort towns but all is forgiven because the view is splendid. Also, there are enough bikes in Winter Park to cancel out the most ridiculous extravangances. Big bikes. Small bikes. Red bikes. Blue bikes. Bike-themed pizza parlours. It’s great.

At Trestle Macky and I hit our all-time low for cleanliness and all-time high for pure (although not entirely un-adulterated) love of life. Continue reading

Roadtripping Colorado: Feeling Free

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I spent the last two weeks living out of my best friend Macky’s 1995 Subaru. We traveled in style, four bikes on top, the back stuffed to exploding point with wheels and sweaty clothes and industrial sized containers of HEED. We camped in parking lots and made sandwiches on the hood of the car, relishing our freedom and unshoweredness and making wild plans to live this way permanently. Continue reading