Day 4: Mount Bross
Up early, had breakfast cooked in town. Rectified mistake of day before in not loading up on carbs for energy. We are burning through everything we can eat being on the trails for 8 hours a day.
Today we went to Mount Bross. It’s one of the mountains that goes over 14,000 feet in the area. It’s about a 30 minute ride to the town of Alma at the base of the mountain. Alma is around 10,600 feet. We start the ride up. It’s initially not too bad. Once we clear the treeline we are riding on mostly rocks and loose sandy soil. Traction isn’t great. I got to see my first mountain goat…or ram. It was white, had curly horns and was hopping around with no problems.
So after a couple of hours of riding, several of us are on a plateau between Mt Bross and Mt Lincoln. We try to ride over to the summit of Mt Lincoln but have to turn back due to snow. We probably could have made it. But if we had slipped it would have meant having to try and either retrieve a bike down the loose rocky slope quite a ways….or riding it all the way down. No hero stuff before the end of the week! We turned back to Bross.
Meeting up with Steve Harris again, we decided to hit the summit of Mt Bross. Not a bad climb. All rocks with gusty winds. So we rode around the top for a while, took pictures, made phone calls, and then went back down. Not everybody was riding today and some want to hit the summit again. So we might be going back later this week. We are thinking of doing some races up on the top for grins. 
Riders today:
Joe Wooten
Steve Harris
Mary Seidel
Drew Marcum
Steve Clark
Rich Sturges
Steve Keener
Bernie Conatser (First time dirtriding and he makes it up a 14K mountain!!!)
Racing | Steve Keener | 22 July 2009 |
