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
Author: nicolettejones13
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
That’s a Wrap
“Beautiful, but harsh,” is how a resident of the area described Patagonia this time of year. Indeed we have found that to be true. While we were elated to have arrived in the mountains after a long stretch in the Argentine desert, we knew that the fall weather could spell the end to our cycling. READ MORE
Not Over Yet
Long days on the bike gives us lots of time to pontificate the meaning of life and entertain one another with dumb what if questions. A classic has been, “what if our bike breaks irreparably?” Would we buy single bikes and continue on? Return home? Continue the trip by backpack/bus? Set up shop in a READ MORE