Category Archives: Mountain Biking

Summer 2022, Day 21: Castle Gardens SA and Big Cedar Ridge Fossil Plant Area

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This morning I rode my bike south to Big Cedar Ridge Fossil Plant Area:

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I think I found the fossil-bearing layer:

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Found some fossilized sticks and seeds:

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I poked around my camping area:

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Howdy neighbors:

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I packed up and headed west to Worland to check out an oxbow lake:

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I headed south to Thermopolis, home of the world’s largest mineral hot spring:

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These fish are very happy in the warm water:

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I continued west to Riverton, Wyoming in the Wind River Reservation to overnight at the Wind River casino:

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See the trip map for today’s drive.

Summer 2022, Day 14: Devils Tower NM

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Another Wyoming morning:

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I went for a bike ride with my RV neighbor and his son:

I then did some more biking on my own:

I continued west, taking a short detour to see Devils Tower National Monument, which I last visited in 2010:

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I continued southwest to this dispersed camping location overlooking the Keyhole Reservoir, north of Moorcroft, Wyoming:

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See the trip map for today’s drive.

Summer 2021, Day 39: Crested Butte, Day 4

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This morning I motorcycled the bicycle down to Crested Butte, then took the free shuttle with the bicycle up to Mount Crested Butte:

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I rode Snodgrass, Lupine, Lando Calrissian, and Lower Loop, and ended up back in downtown Crested Butte:

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I then motorcycled the bicycle west of town to ride Canal, Strand Bonus and Strand.  I rode along with three riders I met at the trailhead.  A thunderstorm moved in during the ride, making a slippery mess of the trails.  It also meant that I had to cross a flooded canal, which was ankle-deep when I started but on the way back was waist-deep:

Good Shabbos from near Crested Butte, Colorado!