The Pioneers

Sundays are now officially called “Adventure Sundays.” It seems that no matter what we try to do on a Sunday it turns into an epic journey.

Today Mike and I headed into the Pioneer Mountains to find a trail to mountain bike. We drove in through Muldoon Canyon outside of Bellevue. The goal was to find Baugh Creek and make a loop of old Forest Service roads. For the first time in a really long time we were stopped by private land boundaries. It’s been awhile! But we were already an hour into dirt roads, and it turned into a chance to have a true adventure…one where we got on our mountain bikes and just rode. We ended up taking a dirt track up and over a set of foothills with a fantastic view of the Little Wood River bottomlands. I saw a few creatures (mostly mule deer) and Mike took a fantastically dusty tumble when his back tire skidded on some unstable soil. The whole ride was dusty – really dusty. We didn’t see another human being the entire time, and it was fantastic.

Hooray for Adventure Sundays!