Santa Fe

[CorsairMac]

Karen: PM me - if you get a chance to ride, let me know and I'll come ride with you. Like CC said, the roads here are awesome but depending on where you're staying we might be able to pop over to the Bosque trail and ride along the Rio Grande for a bit. My job is pretty flexible so I can take time off work and go for a ride, just let me know.

[snowtulip]

Hotel Albuquerque is right next to Mountain Rd. and you can catch the paved bosque trail that CM talks about at the end of the road. I'd take CM up on her offer, she's a great person to ride with! I need to coax her back onto the mountain with me.

Depending on when you're here, I might be able to do a Santa Fe mtn. ride. I advise Windsor trail, it's pretty and will take you to ski area.

I'd recommend stopping by Bike N Sport in Santa Fe (just ask where Trader Joes is and it's next door), a great bike shop with lots of info.

[Grog]

You could check out the Pedal Queens' web site: http://www.pedalqueens.com/ they're a woman mountain biking club in Santa Fe! (And they're really cool.)

[Cassandra_Cain]

You could check out the Pedal Queens' web site: http://www.pedalqueens.com/ they're a woman mountain biking club in Santa Fe! (And they're really cool.)

Darn~ Wish we had something like this in 'burque

[Tuckervill]

Dang, somehow I missed all these replies.

Thanks for the offer to ride with us! That sounds groovy, but don't count on it. I'll have to sneak away from the hotel and it maybe just too hard (and spontaneous).

However! I found this cool book online, published in 1994, called Mountain Biking in Northern New Mexico: Historical and Natural History Rides. It describes all these mountain bike rides where you can go by ghost towns, lava flows, fossil beds, etc. The book is very detailed (although I do wonder about changes in the last 12 years). I am more pumped up about taking the bikes, now.

When I have more time, I'll post directions to some of the rides and see if anyone is familiar with the areas. I think my boy is really going to like these rides. He wants to go to Big Tubes, for sure.

Thanks!
Karen

[Tuckervill]

A friend is going to the same conference, and she and her daughter want to do some trails on horseback.

Any suggestions I can pass on to her?

Thanks!
Karen