For years, I've considered starting a blog and changing this site so that others can gain insight on places to ride and bike setup. I'm lucky that my work allows me the opportunity to ride in places all over the country and my hope is to share the adventure with others. I am also going to start creating a database of my rides with details and suggestions for each place. For this first post, I am going to create a short list of my favorite places that I had the chance to ride in 2016. I will be listing dirt bike trails and also mountain bike trails.
GoPro Recap
Top 5 motorcycle adventures of 2016
Bikes used: 2016 KTM 250 SX, 2014 KTM 350 XCF, 2017 KTM 300 XC-W
1) Pitkin, Colorado
Favorite trail: Don't remember, but our guide was excellent! Horseshoe is one trail I do remember having a blast on.
Somewhere deep in The Rockies
2) Crested Butte, Colorado
Favorite trail: Cement Creek/Deadman's area
Views and trail like this really close to Crested Butte, Colorado
3) Grand Junction, Colorado
Favorite trail: Skinny Ridge!
Skinny Ridge is just a few miles north of the Airport in Grand Junction and worth a stop.
4) Moab, Utah
Favorite trail: Five miles of Hell
Imagine first and second gear riding all over those rocks!
5) Hartman Rocks, Gunnison, Colorado
Favorite trail: Any of the double black rock trails
Hartman Rocks is a riding area just outside of Gunnison, Colorado and has some really cool rocks features to play on.
Honorable mention: McMahan Ranch, Smithville, Texas // Barnwell Mountain, Gilmer, Texas // Indian Nations riding area, Scipio, Oklahoma
Top 5 mountain bike trails of 2016
Bikes used: Trek Session 9.9, Santa Cruz Tallboy, Giant Trance Advanced SX
1) Whistler Mountain Bike Park, Whistler, British Columbia
Favorite Trail: Dirt Merchant
Believe the hype!
2) Crested Butte, Colorado
Favorite Trail: Doctor's Park
You have to work for the descent but man is it worth it!
3) Salida, Colorado
Favorite Trail: Monarch Crest Trail
My buddy Chris Fillmore enjoying the Monarch Crest trail.
4) Crested Butte, Colorado
Favorite Trail: 403/401
View from the top of the 403 trail.
5) Bobbitt's Backyard, somewhere in Georgia
Favorite Trail: We always get lost
Any ride that ends at a spot like this one is a good one!