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Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Mountain Biking Hut to Hut, From Durango to Moab

Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Singletracks.com

Sports, Wilderness

4.7574 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2017

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Singletracks podcast, Jeff recounts his hut to hut adventure, mountain biking from Durango, CO to Moab, UT with a group of friends.

For more photos, be sure to check out the original coverage from this epic trip.


--Keep up with the latest in mountain biking at Singletracks.com and on Instagram @singletracks

Transcript

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0:00.0

Something unexpected has arrived in Happy Meal. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Hello Kitty and friends are teaming up for the ultimate collab.

0:08.3

Joining your little ones on a fun-fueled adventure. Some fun, some food, it's all inside this happy meal.

0:16.3

Until the 2nd of February from 11am includes one pre-selected book or toy whilst it's last.

0:20.1

Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast.

0:23.1

My name is Jeff, and today I'm going to be sharing a story that I wrote back in 2010

0:28.8

about a hut-to-hut bikepacking light trip that I took with a group of friends from Durango, Colorado to Moab, Utah.

0:39.9

Again, this story was published back in 2010, so in case you missed it, here's the story.

0:46.2

Nate and Matt arrived at Durango Mountain Resort early after parking the truck in Moab

0:50.7

and catching the Porcupine shuttle to Durango.

0:53.4

The locals recommended skipping the fire

0:55.3

road start out of Durango Mountain Resort and shuttling to the 10,800-foot Molas Pass to ride the

1:02.3

Colorado Trail to the first hut. Since Durango Mountain Resort sits at roughly 8,000 feet,

1:08.0

and the hut was at 11,000 feet, we figured this would be a good way to skip some of the

1:12.3

3,000 foot climb to the hut. That would turn out to be a bad assumption. Our shuttle driver

1:17.1

described the day's route as rolling, and then the first part of the climb wasn't too bad.

1:21.7

We were passed early on by a group of day trippers, and later we passed another group of

1:25.7

self-supported riders on a four-day trip

1:27.9

down to Durango. The trail eventually climbed above treeline and all of us struggled to adjust to the

1:33.4

altitude since most of us had been at sea level just the day before. I crashed at one point on an easy

1:39.1

section of trail and scraped a good bit of skin off my leg, a result of pure exhaustion.

1:50.7

This part of the Colorado Trail eventually tops out around 12,500 feet, and we were all anxious to descend off the windy pass. We lost 1,500 feet over the next three miles, and then began another

1:57.0

climb through a forest sliced with rambling creek crossings. Near the end of the descent,

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