{"id":682,"date":"2009-09-22T14:38:39","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T20:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=682"},"modified":"2017-07-31T18:14:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T00:14:13","slug":"colorado-trail-mount-princeton-section-91809","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/colorado-trail-mount-princeton-section-91809\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Trail: Mount Princeton Section 9.18.09"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

Brittany and I started just off of Cottonwood pass road, and headed out towards the south end of the trail near the Frontier Ranch.
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The leaves are getting close to peak color:
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Mt. Princeton. We rode along its flanks from left to right on the CO trail:
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Mt. Antero, the Mt. Princeton Hot Springs, and the Chalk Cliffs:
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The trail reminds me a little of the Rainbow trail section of the “Monarch Crest” ride. Lots of little gullies and whoop-de-do’s and the occasional rock garden.
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Yet another 14er, Yale, can be seen through the trees in this photo:
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That’s about it, we’re really digging the fall riding with all the colors. Looks like it should stop snowing and warm back up next weekend, so things may just be perfect.<\/p>\n

For more trail information please see Frontier Ranch<\/a> on our Crested Butte Mountain Biking Guide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":428598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","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=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428599,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/428599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}