Author: Frank Konsella

BikingCrested Butte

Lowline Trail 10.3.09

After roughly 14 years here in Crested Butte, I sometimes feel like I’ve seen and done it all, especially when it comes to bike trails. When I’ve stared at the map, looking for new adventures on two wheels, my eyes have always been drawn to the Lowline trail south of Ohio Pass. But whenever I’ve asked anyone about it, all I’ve ever heard are words like “lots of cows”, “lots of horses”, “muddy”, and “easy to get lost”. Despite the lack of local enthusiasm for the trail, when Pete Sowar suggested it I was all in. Jay Prentiss thought it was a great place to go explore as well, and we were off.

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Biking

Colorado Trail: Mount Princeton Section 9.18.09

Almost every section of the Colorado Trail has great mountain biking. The Mount Princeton section of the Colorado Trail traverses the flanks of the Collegiate fourteener and is a quick section that I sometimes do on the way to or from Denver. While I describe it as a loop with the flat roads in the Arkansas valley, this trail would probably work as an out and back as well, although the first section would have some hike-a-bike going up from Cottonwood Creek.

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