Silvercity, NM video

Silver City is a small mountain town in Southeastern New Mexico. We had heard people saying that it is like Taos before it was "discovered".  Of course, there is a bike shop in Silver City, and it's called Gila Hike & Bike.  We stopped in to inquire about the mountain bike trails and ask where we could park our truck camper for the night.  Earlier in the year, Silver City hosted a "Downhill" mountain bike rice. So, we were wanting to find someone who might want to do a "shuttle" up the mountain with us so we could sample the "DH" trails. A guy named Rohan said he might be able to get off work and shuttle with us the next day, but it didn't work out for him(and us).  Next time!

 The owner of the bike shop pointed us in the direction of the Gomez Peak trail for some cross-country riding, and he said we could park our camper overnight at the trailhead.  There was a good bit of climbing and some "hike-a-bike" near the top due to the rocky terrain. But, once we got to the top it was all downhill from there!  Cactus lined the trail and the top section was very "chunky" with one 4 foot drop thrown in for good measure. 

The camping was in the tall pines just off of a dirt, forest service road.  The temps got below freezing at night so, we didn't stay longer.  Elevation was around 7,000 ft!  Good thing we had recently been hiking and biking in Colorado. Natalie and I liked Silver City, but it's a little too small to consider it for a permanent location.

Cheers,
Trey

GomezPeakTrail.wmv

Not a blessed speller!

PEDAL not peddel. Sorry, crap!

Oh happy day.

Hope that everyone had a great turkey day. Trey and I didn’t do much. I could have tried to bake a turkey in our convection oven but, why? So, I made Trey a turkey sandwich and me a turkey tostada. It was delish but I sure did miss the friends and fam. It’s just not the same.

 I love how the TV channels are bombarded with special holiday shows. I got to watch Elf with Will Ferrell and Ice-skating. We are staying in Tucson at a RV camp. We plan to leave today and head toward the direction of Phoenix. We plan to spend the winter there but I will say Joey is not a desert dog. I spent 5 minutes last night trying to pull a cactus torn out from the gum line of his front teeth. Good times. Joey does not like the desert so we may go a little more North just to get somewhere he can run free and not have to worry that he is going to plow into more cactus. I can’t count how times Trey and I have had the tweezers out for him…

Trey and I have been biking a lot and the only thing I can’t report is that the DH trails around here aren’t really DH because you have to UH to get to the DH. So, in my opinion isn’t that XC?

We hooked up with some locals and planned to shuttle a “DH” trail called La Milagrosa. Trey, rode his Demo 8. (Oops) All I have to say is he is the man, because we peddled a lot! And he had to stand and peddle the whole freaking time. (And he is now wondering why his knee has been hurting the last few days)  Little did we know that the plan was to hook two other trails in before La Milagrosa. The only saving grace was the halfway point being in the camp area of where we dropped the camper. So, we could eat something. I’m pretty sure I would have had a total meltdown had it not been for that short little break. Some of you may be wondering if Trey traded out his Demo for the Ibis? To answer your question, no. We hadn’t yet made it to La Milagrosa. (The “DH” trail) So he stuck it out. It was a cool trail but would have been better lived with an all-mountain bike.

Hope everyone is well, thanks for reading and until next time. Hasta luego.

Free ride lives in Santa Fe

We are trying to get caught up on some of the videos that we have taken, so excuse the misplaced order of this one. Here is Trey hitting the trails in Santa Fe. Enjoy!

Rock City

I like it here.

…So, we went to Texas for a few hours. Then we headed back to New Mexico. We stopped off in El Paso at an AT&T store. We have a new phone now… We were in Texas for about four hours. J New Mexico is a really cool place, I like it here. We stayed in Rock City one night and mountain biked the next day. I have a few pictures from hiking around and Trey took video from biking. I’m going to work on stitching that together later today. We have been in Silver City the last two nights. We mountain biked here too. The trail we rode reminded me of the top part of trail #30 in Oly; only there were cactus around ever corner just waiting for me to fall off my bike.

 Southern New Mexico is having a freakish cold spell. The night before last we stayed up in the mountains in that area and were running low on propane so we didn’t run the heat. That morning was in the teens…I had on two pairs of socks with hand warmers in them, fleece pants, a long sleeve shirt, a fleece sweater and another fleece sweater with a jacket on over that. I had on two beanies and a neck fleece. Lastly, a pair of gloves with another set of hand warmers and I was still freezing. Even Joey didn’t get up to greet me that morning…

Joey is feeling better by the way; poo is back to normal. Fortunately, the wind storm kept Joey from getting too skunked that night. He smells but not as bad as the first time he was skunked in Hoodriver, OR.

Thanks again to our followers. It’s nice to know people care and are following the blog. I want to say hello to all the people we have met along the way. There are some really cool people out there doing the same thing we are. (They may be older and retired but they all say the same thing too us. “Do it while you are young.”)

Here are a few shots from Rock City.

(Our connection is too slow; I will try and post pics when I post the videos…)