Wind, Miles, Mosquitos: The Tenmile/Mosquito Range Traverse
Summit Daily: Boulder man hikes Mosquito-Ten Mile from Trout Creek Pass to Mount Royal (podcast)
Visit the Summit Daily to listen to the three part podcast I recorded with Antonio Olivero:
In the wee hours of a late June night three months ago, the patrons of the Moose Jaw in Frisco reacted to quite the sight bursting through the front doors.
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Video: Stuck on Freeway: eleven miles (240 pitches) on The Second Flatiron, Boulder Colorado
Flatiron Quinfecta Birthday Challenge With Nolan!
For my housemate’s birthday, we did the Flatiron Quinfecta – a local scrambling challenge to climb the five number flatirons in a day. My housemate has really only scrambled for a limited amount of time, and I was most impressed of his fortitude in successfully completing the task. Happy birthday, dude!
Training Log, 9/3/18 – 9/9/18
Summit Daily: Centennial Man – Boulder’s ‘Long Ranger’ recounts how he became first person to scale Colorado’s 105 highest points self-supported
From the Summit Daily (read the full article, here)
Out on the remote, amazingly wild ridgelines of this state’s most dangerous backcountry locations Justin Simoni would ask himself the most recurring question of his unprecedented trip: “I wonder why no one does this?”
“I always had these, ‘I wonder why no one does this?’ questions,” Simoni explained to a crowd at Wilderness Sports on Wednesday evening.
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Presentation @ Wilderness Sports, Dillon, Colorado on August 29th
Summit County! I’ll be talking at Wilderness Sports in Dillon, CO on August 29th, 6:00 to 9:00pm! Do come! I’ll have loot to raffle off from Ultimate Directiojn and La Sportiva, and tons of stories to share! RSVP here.
Update: here’s coverage of the presentation by the local paper, The Summit Daily.
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Miles on Freeway – Running 20 laps up and 20 laps down on the Second Flatiron
Last Thursday, I thought a righteous challenge would be to see how many laps on the Second Flatiron’s “Freeway” route I could do, before my arms fell off.
After 16 hours, I had accumulated 40 laps! 20 up, and 20 down, done in succession with little rest in between.
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Like a Bigfoot Podcast #104: Justin Simoni — Tour De Highest Hundred, Bikepacking & Climbing the CO Centennials
Earlier this month, I sat down with Like a Bigfoot and talked bikes, mountains, and all points in-between. Have a listen!
GDMBR Detours: Lake City Linkup
With another run of the Tour Divide this year, I’m reminded again of this awesome cross-country route and the many great memories I have on it.
The last time I was riding on the GDMBR was on my Tour of the Highest Hundred, where I rode up Marshall Pass after riding the 100 miles from Lake City to summit my first Sawatch of the trip: Mount Ouray.
The route itself was excellent, and provided a relatively quiet and mostly dirt route linking two disparate mountain ranges. The GDMBR barely gets into the San Juans, which is a real shame, as the San Juans are truly one of the crown jewels of Colorado. I’ll explain the route from Salida to Lake City, as this is where you’ll get on it via the GDMBR, then detour off towards Lake City. Once at Lake City, you’ll have to make a choice of where to go, as detouring back to the GDMBR is a trip in of itself and is also, sadly, all on pavement.
Here we go: