Troy Wells

Long Days in the high country

// September 3rd, 2009 // Uncategorized

So I’ve been spending some serious time up above 10000 feet. In the past week I have covered the entire CO trail from moles to town. In that time I would say I’ve had to big days that i will remember for a while. First off last saturday I ventured out with the german for what was suppose to be a long day on the bikes. Before we knew it we lost the trail and ended up hiking for a solid hour and half. We had out the topo map along with the After we finally climbed up out of the cascade creek covering 600 vertical feet in less than 20 minutes we found the colorado trail. After that it was smooth sailing to blackhawk and down hotel draw back to the car at DMR. Here are a couple photos from the day.

German breaking the CO trail sign.

German descending off of blackhawk

This morning I hit up the CO trail from the top of hotel draw to town. This ended up calling for a early morning with all the thunder storms that have been rolling in to town in the afternoon. Snyder, TT and I had a 6 a.m. departure out of durango. We dialed the ride in 5 hours. The trail has about 20 minutes of hike a bike in the middle but besides from that it is sick. You are rolling around @ about 12000 feet for 40 minutes. It is a good amount of rolling single track for about the first hour before you begin climbing. So here some photos of snyder and TT kicking it @ 12000.