Wes Chapman Mt. Rainier is the home to American mountaineering, and the epicenter is Rainier Mountain Guides (RMI), an outfit started [...]
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Ride the Rockies, Day 7 – Alamosa to Salida
The day started out in a particularly mellow fashion, appropriate for a day of little climbing and steady tailwinds. Stan [...]
Read moreRTR Day 6 – Wolf Creek Pass
The day started out in a particularly auspicious fashion. I got on the bus at the hotel at Pagosa Springs [...]
Read moreRTR Day 5 – Durango to Pagosa Springs
The highlight of my night life in Durango was an $8.00 buffet all you can eat pizza and salad joint [...]
Read moreRTR Day 4 – Ouray to Durango
The exit from Ouray goes straight up 3,500 feet with no warm-up. We took off into a brisk headwind that [...]
Read moreClimbing the Mighty Grand Mesa with RTR
The Grand Mesa is the biggest flat topped mountain in the world. It dwarfs all of the other surrounding mesas [...]
Read moreRTR Day 3 – The Ride to Ouray
Ouray is an old silver mining town at the head of a box canyon at the headwaters of the Uncompahgre [...]
Read moreRide the Rockies Day One
This year’s RTR’s starts in Grand Junction, a town that is doing pretty well with an explosion (pun intended) of [...]
Read moreRTR 2009 on Independence Pass
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Read moreRide The Rockies Redux
On the road with RTR '09The ride the Rockies Bike Tour is an acquired taste, which I acquired a long [...]
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