..... Greeting the sun as it rises over the Paradox Valley. Biking The Open Roads of Colorado and the West. The undulating, high-desert “sagebrush sea,” the only place where sage grouse can survive, sprawls across 173 million acres of the American West. But the unbroken expanses the birds require are now fragmented by roads, fences, drill pads, transmission lines, and subdivisions. “There’s just not enough habitat anymore,” says Brian Rutledge of the Audubon Society. Biking the Open Road in Colorado, With a Few Bumps Along the Way Colorado high grinding it out on a bike trail of bike trails. The newly opened Grand Junction-Moab trail, a 155-mile route linked by a network of backcountry huts, and accessible only two months a year, offers an almost irresistible challenge for bikers. The granite cliffs of Unaweep Canyon, in the western area of Colorado, just south of Grand Junction and about 265 miles from Denver, ( 308 miles from Colorado Springs, where I was working
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