Mountain bike on a Rocky Mountain Instinct almost daily during the season and have a Bowflex C6 to train during the winter when I’m not skiing.
They’re good bikes and what the mountain uses for their rentals so they’re pretty sturdy. Depending on where you are riding I would go with at least the 70 series bikes, mine has the Fox 34 but the Enduro bike I want get I want at least Fox 38s. Riding out here can require a little more fork.
SW Colorado, Phil’s is just East of Cortez and about 50 minutes from where I live.
Roger that, but we don't make it that way often. We are looking for a vacation spot for this summer and camping/mountains is on the table. I think the kids/wife would prefer the beach but we haven't made any plans yet. How busy is the area? is it just swamped with people?
This year was pretty bad but it’s normally not like that. I’m probably a little biased but this is by far my favorite part of Colorado if not the whole country. Great skiing, fly fishing, hiking, and world class mountain biking. It’s not uncommon to have and Olympic or World Cup rider just fly by you on trails. We’re also right next to one of the largest wilderness areas in the lower 48. We also have (or had we’ll see after Covid) more restaurants per capita than San Francisco. Truly is a fantastic place to live but the summers do get a little busier with tourist coming in. The resort was full of Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico last week.
We’re actually in Durango. I’ve never been to the bike park at Angel Fire but I’ve heard amazing things. We did a trip to Jackson Hole and Bozeman this summer and that country is AMAZING, I got to fish the section of the Gallatan that they filmed the last scene of A River Runs Through It was filmed.
I haven't ridden AF's bike park in a long time. I'll ride trails around and with my son and daughter but nothing much more than gravel paths. My friends that ride AF love it and it has a good reputation. My cousin from Dallas is an avid cyclist who has for many many years headed to the Vail area. He claims all his friends who used to wander into Colorado for their yearly mountain biking trip have pretty much stopped at AF. It's much closer, less expensive, and has really good trails. The bike park is supposed to be pretty nice, but the area has a lot of miles of trails that are not part of the park.
Haha, my brother has three young boys and his fishing stories give me nightmares. I do plan on hitting up AF to ride soon, one of my employees went down this summer and said the park was incredible. We’re pretty lucky when it comes to fishing, the Animas River’s gold medal section runs through town and about 200 yards from my office. The San Juan quality waters which is easily a top ten fishery in the US is less than an hour away and we have all the mountain streams to fish as well. Probably is always which activity do you pick.
My family had a place up by Buena Vista when I was little. Fishing up there was awesome. Had a creek in the back yard and plenty of great water within a short drive. I miss that place.
Still a weird (but kind of understandable) hate thing with the ebikes here and they’re not allowed on most in town trails but you can do whatever you want on BLM land.
Hikers don’t like them either, can’t really hear them coming around turns. I do have a crossbow but for Turkey only, it’s totally cheating but I wanted one for zombies too.
If the last year has taught me anything it’s that you need to be prepared for everything.
