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    by devon o’neil I photos: liam doran Jun 02, 2017 5 minutes

    EARLY MARCH AT 7,000 FEET STILL qualifies as winter in most Rocky Mountain towns. It is not uncommon for storms to drop multiple feet of snow and close roads for days, sending hopeful robins and riders back into their nests until spring arrives, mercifully, sometime in April or May.

    But not here, not today. I am pedaling up a trail called Frontside in Salida, Colorado, the Banana Belt hamlet that sits between three towering mountain ranges and nearly a dozen 14,000-foot peaks. Eighty minutes north, four feet of snow waits in my yard, with more on its way. Here, the mercury is already touching the low 60s at 10:30 a.m., warming the tacky dirt as well as my pasty forearms, which feel like they have been let out of jail.

    Longtime locals Shawn Gillis and Tom Purvis lead the way up Tenderfoot Mountain, better known as “S Mountain” to

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