in today's video we pack up the bikes head out to the Colorado trail and do a
150 mile bike ride between Denver and Breckenridge Colorado
the Colorado trail stretches 567 miles between Denver and Durango Colorado the
Colorado trail spans across six wilderness areas eight mountain ranges
and most of the trails sits above 10,000 feet so you're really gonna get a lot of
those Alpine views so I slept in a bivy last night this is a Outdoor Research
helium bivy I believe Ed's got a tent set up a one-person tent I think this is
a Nemo tent pretty cool that's his whole setup in there if I had to do this again
I priory consider the bivy it's a little claustrophobic in there definitely got
the job done we're not gonna have a whole lot of footage from day one just
cuz we had GoPro issues and other things there's a whole lot of climbing anyway
you guys didn't want to see me huffing and puffing up segments one and two
little scraggy which is at the end section three is a lot of fun I had a
lot of twisty downhill stuff and we totally needed it by the end of the day
so day number two here we are it's gonna be a whole lot of road riding today
against seventy-five miles so it's gonna be another hot one today probably closer to
100 degrees the winter has finally left us here in Colorado and it went
straight the full-on summer
25 miles into the 75 mile detour around wilderness area to get back to the
Colorado trail and we are in a totally exposed section here super hot we are
getting beat down ed how you doing back there yeah we're both in pretty rough
shape after day 1 legs are pretty toasted but the scenery is amazing when
we got the cloud cover and we got a little bit right now it feels really
good a little bit of a breeze but for the most part it's really exposed out
here take a look
whoo
I really love these longer rides this backpacking trip has been awesome
honestly just kind of leaves you alone to your own demons lets you work through
stuff in your mind and I mean just taking in all the scenery is amazing I
mean we're way out here on the Colorado trail well this isn't quite the Colorado
trails workaround to get back onto it but and it's just amazing to be out here
feels good
we're about a hundred miles in on the Colorado trail just finishing up the
last detour around segment four and for about the last hundred miles there has
been nothing as far as restaurants or anything like that finally made it here
100 miles in and we found the stage stop this place is pretty cool it's a saloon
restaurant and convenience store so we went in there I picked up some chips
some Red Bull and some coke you got to get that sugar back in you we're about
to catch another storm been skirting them every day today is day three so not
sure we're gonna get away from this one because we're climbing up over a pass
and that's generally where those storms hit so we'll see how it goes
these rocks
last night we camped on top of Kenosha pass and we joined up with the Colorado
trail just on the opposite side of 285 and this is what it's all about man
there are just expanses of use roughing the aspen trees you got all these other
Peaks like Georgia and things back here that we're gonna end up crossing over
here shortly I'm trying to get down to a water source which is just down at the
bottom I got to filter out some water I'm basically all out so it's gonna be a
long slog today we're gonna climb up on the opposite side I think it's Georgia
Pass and then we're gonna drop down into Breckenridge tonight we'll probably stay
in town get like a hotel room and then join back up dropping the copper maybe
head over to Leadville tomorrow but man it's just been it's just been a great
ride I'm really excited for this type of riding here where it's just that true
single track and yeah let's get to it and right now we're just heading down to
a cross and seeking filter some water about all out
where you gotta watch those rear derailleurs because rocks is just the
right height
Oh man this is sweet
yeah we will catch it at the bridge catch that water there we go and we found
water all right yay gonna dont have to be thirsty anymore if you are ever gonna do the
Colorado Trail definitely bring your bug spray you're gonna need it
so I'm using a life straw that was designed to basically fit inside of just
regular water bottles so it's been working out pretty good so far
you never know what's in this water so it's definitely good to filter it out a
lot different taking some of these little rock gardens with 75 pounds of
gear on you
you get all that weight kind of as you're going over it pushing behind
yourself really got to keep the weight back keep the back end down totally
doable though pretty crazy pretty cool views up here from the top of Kenosha
we're getting ready to hit down the rest of the Colorado trail drop into brick so
I think we drop down and we got to climb back up to get up into the Breckenridge
area but yeah these views are just crazy
going down Georgia pass rock star James beginning in front
after a couple amazing days in the Colorado trail we wrapped up our trip by
dropping down in the Breckenridge Frisco area I really want to say thank you to
the hotel Frisco we rolled in a little bit late and those guys made sure we had
a place to stay so thanks to them me and Ed we're already looking forward to our
next bike packing trip hopefully we can do a little more in the Colorado trail