Before I transition into full summer work, I have been enjoying some down time and the best of the Colorado’s spring greenery. The waning snowpack that backdrops the alpine flowers and budding aspens has me thinking back to the surprisingly good skiing we got in this spring. Read on for a few photos and accounts READ MORE
Author: nicolettejones13
Highlands Trail 550
What a trip. Something about the weather and the terrain and my unfamiliarity with this part of the world makes this race seem like something I stepped into and out of, a world of its own which has very little to do with my day to day life. There is a little bit of a READ MORE
Kick off to 2025 Spring Season: Malamute+
This post missed publication last year. But as I look over my blog I’m happy to share it now. As the dry, warm weather quickly settled the season’s below average snowpack, Mark, Parker and I were excited to venture into the high country for a bit of ski mountaineering. Parker is usually our main partner READ MORE
Arizona Trail Race 300
A race this long almost never goes exactly to plan, but usually I end somewhere near expectation. This race was different. I actually had a stress dream the night before that foreboded the reality awaiting me. In the dream I finished a day later than planned and I could not remember why I had gone READ MORE
The Grand Loop 2025
Photos by Greg Dunham A Few Thoughts I read about the Grand Loop for the first time last Spring after the race’s completion that year. At the time I was preparing for my first mountain bike races, a summer schedule that was designed to build up to the Colorado Trail Race. By the end of READ MORE
A Cold Day’s Work
As the weather has turned arctic the last couple days, I have finally made time to do some writing. Although the single digit highs make it hard to venture out, I am happy to have an excuse to put some energy into a blog post. As I reflect on the last two months of skiing READ MORE
Vapor Trail 125
One of my friends had been handed an entry, and talking to him about the race, Vapor Trail 125 sounded like good fun. I was coming off a strong ride on the Colorado Trail Race, and two weeks after my winning finish, my legs were feeling surprisingly spry. The registration had been full for month’s, READ MORE
Colorado Trail Race 2024
Time: 5 days 12 hours 21 minutes Total miles ridden: 544.24 Elevation gain: 74,533 ft (22,717 meters) First woman to cross the finish Line! 10th(ish) overall (there were a couple of DQ’s in the men’s field, but I’m counting them as finishers) I went into the race with the hopeful goal of winning the women’s READ MORE