Orange Sklar on the top of Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park. D-day for knee surgery looms in four days. At this point in time – save for a somewhat fear of surgery and anesthesia and the unknown… Continue reading

Eerie day at work today. It conjured flashbacks to five years ago, back to white walls, plastic sheets, a face pushed down on the dirt and some dark, dark days and nights. To see someone go through something similar is… Continue reading

My Sklar bike, pre-paint, in a Montana wood pile.  I had a nice early morning ski up and down the mountain behind our house this morning with Stella, and a great ride up Flag this evening after work as the… Continue reading

About a year ago I ordered a bike from a kid named Adam Sklar who I used to coach when I worked for the Singletrack Mountain Bicycling Association. Adam is a great guy who has shown a real passion for… Continue reading

After the doctor's appointment and bad news, we decided to go for a little mellow ski up Mayflower Gulch. It was short and beautiful.  On April 4, just a few days after this year's Elk Mountain Traverse, Elaine and I… Continue reading

Our normal spring skiing season – the one where we climb to the top of soaring peaks and ski back down in perfect corn – is taking awhile to get going this year. Elaine and I have been working on… Continue reading

We headed out this morning for a ski in the beginning of the storm. Tomorrow will be a powder day, but today was a wet slush day. Dense snow bending tree limbs, sticking to the bottom of skins and coating… Continue reading

We're sometimes asked why we choose to live a good 45 minute drive from our place of work. It's a legitimate question, and there are nights when we get home at 11 pm or midnight that it indeed seems to… Continue reading

Lots of hopping across streams, skipping through mud and jumping over snow banks to get to this point just west of Hessie. Travel right now is as challenging as it will be all year.  We've entered mud season in Happy… Continue reading

The transition from winter to spring in these parts is a lengthy process of multiple starts and stops. Case in point, last week was nearing 70 degrees as a high pressure system entrenched itself over the divide. Not too much… Continue reading