Day 5: Colorado Trip
Awake before 7 am. Put fuel in the Exxon Valdez – my 6.3 gallon oversized as tank.
We started around 8 am. Rich Sturges, Drew Marcum, Bernie Conatser, Jow Wooten, and I were planning a short early ride up peak 10 just outside Breckenridge. Little did we know it was going to be a 3 hour ugly affair on rocky switchbacks. I made it to the weather station about 150 feet shy of the summit. The others hiked from the weather station up to the peak. I went down a bit and relaxed out of the wind enjoying the sun and listening to my ipod.
Ride 2 of the day was a longer affair. We used highways to get out to some dirt road town (M-something, I’ll fill in later.) Easy ride to start. Large group of us with Brian Summers and his girlfriend Adina Rossi on the back of the bike! We started up into the mountain ranges and the hardcore riders separated from those just looking for a nice easy ride.
We figured we had a long ride ahead as it was nearly an hour ride to where we started into the mountains from Breckenridge. We were moving fast along the ridgeline. (Joe Wooten, Steve Harris, Bernie Conatser, Drew M., and myself)
We saw some spectacular views and some mountain goats/sheep out in the cliffs. I’ll fill in with great pictures later.
Our trip back included the North Fork from the Tiger Rd area and a couple of different Gulches. On one of the descents I finally dropped the bike. Literally…on it’s side. It was so steep when I went to put my foot down for balance…I met air. DOH! No damage, a little dust is all. Oh well.
We had a descent of about 3 miles at one point. Rocky, loose sandy soil, a heavily running creek, and 5 tired guys at the bottom. Very fun ride!!!
Ride 3 of the day was about an hour long. Close to where we are staying. Dual track, rocks, into the Moonscape of heavy rocks on the other side of Peak 10. Yes, rocks bigger than your average bowling ball bag. And yes….we rode on then. Great stuff!!!
Riders today:
Joe Wooten
Steve Harris
Drew Marcum
Steve Clark
Rich Sturges
Steve Keener
Mary Seidel
Brian Summers
Adina Rossi
Bernie Conatser
Racing | Steve Keener | 23 July 2009 |
