{"id":2623,"date":"2012-05-01T10:40:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T16:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2012-05-01T12:00:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T18:00:35","slug":"new-page-the-colorado-trail-mountain-bike-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/new-page-the-colorado-trail-mountain-bike-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"New Page:  The Colorado Trail Mountain Bike Guide!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, while riding <a href=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/return-to-cataract-ridge-9-3-11\/\">Cataract Ridge<\/a>, we met a rider from New Mexico who was nearing completion of his goal to ride each section of the Colorado Trail (CT).  His project planted a seed in my head and I decided it was a project that I too would like to someday complete.  On the one hand, this project offers a lot of leeway, since sections can be ridden in multiple parts in either direction.  On the other hand, I plan on being a stickler and riding every legal part of the trail, so there are a number of small sections that thru-bikers skip on the Wilderness detours.  The CT mountain bike guide can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/colorado-trail-mountain-bike-guide\/\">HERE<\/a>&#8211; or on the right hand side with the other 14erskiers&#8217; pages.<\/p>\n<p>The Colorado Trail guidebook lists 28 sections, although 2 of them are entirely in Wilderness and therefore aren&#8217;t part of this guidebook.  Of the remaining 26 sections, I have completed 3, ridden some or most of another 11, and not an inch of the remaining 12 (as of today, 5-1-12).  While I&#8217;m not making it a goal to finish this summer, it&#8217;s certainly a possibility given how long the summer riding season will be after the lackluster winter of 2012.  <\/p>\n<p>The value of this page will be greatly enhanced by comments from 14erskiers&#8217; readers.  For instance, I&#8217;m going under the assumption that ALL of the non-Wilderness miles are open to bikes, but unfortunately that isn&#8217;t always the case.  So if you know that a section isn&#8217;t open to bikes, please leave a comment here so I can edit the page.  Likewise, one of the draws of this project for me is that I get to pour over maps and attempt to discover the best way of riding a section- whether it&#8217;s an out and back, a shuttle, or a loop with other trails and roads.  So if our readers know that a route I have proposed isn&#8217;t feasible or the best route available, please let me know by leaving a comment here.<\/p>\n<p>A few shots to get you stoked on the CT:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/cataract%20ridge%209-3-11\/IMG_7165fix.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/COTrail%2018Sept2009\/IMG_0110frank.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/Tiger%20Run-CT%20%209-11-11\/IMG_7384fix.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/Copper%20to%20Kokomo%20%209-25-11\/IMG_7414fix.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/SnowMesa%204Sept2011\/P1030145snowmesa.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/Rio%20Grande%20Reservoir%20loop%208-21-10\/IMG_3131.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/click.php?tt=ml&amp;ti=17513&amp;pw=29053\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/gbi\/10477\/17513\/23393\/29053\/image.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"90\" style=\"border: 0px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, while riding Cataract Ridge, we met a rider from New Mexico who was nearing completion of his goal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2631,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions\/2631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}