My trip to Colorado in July 2023 was a good balance of strenuous mountain hikes, fishing, and chilling out reading and watching Season 3 of The Witcher on Netflix. I also spent a lot of time driving (thankfully the scenery is so awesome so that wasn’t so bad), and squeezed…
Strava link: https://www.strava.com/activities/9539113958 Brittany and I hit the road early to get to the Yankee Boy Basin 2WD trailhead early. After an iced-coffee powered drive on the winding Million Dollar Highway the drive got even more interesting as it left the pavement and wound up a rocky road and under…
Strava link: https://www.strava.com/activities/9519440700 I left Old Tale Inn in Leadville at about 4am and downed a can of cold brew coffee on the relatively short drive to the Mt Elbert trailhead (I took the standard route: Northeast Ridge). I was excited and a little nervous about climbing a fourteener on…
Strava link: https://www.strava.com/activities/9508951911 I made a handful of Colorado friends through a “30 days upside down” handstand challenge on Instagram in January 2022. I got to meet a few of them in Colorado last September (Bierstadt-Sawtooth Evans with Drew; Shavano and Tabeguache with Ryan; and at a Nine Inch Nails…