Archive for August, 2010
Pagosa springs to durango
Did some fly fishing and a nice ride on the way back to durango. We’ve returned the bikes to the dealer to store them after some thorough cleaning. We fly out in the morning. A great trip.
Taylor pass
Wow we are at 12400 now. Most intense ride ever for all of us. Back now. It was a crazy ride to the top. We were very challenged with the terrain and the altitude. Dropped all the bikes a few times. Had to rest a lot because of the lack of oxygen. What a great [...]
Crested butte to cottonwood pass to salida
Dry about 80 percent today. Spectacular riding. Rode along amazing river full of fly fisherman, kayakers and rafters. Todd was regretting not having his rod. We could see the trout in the rivers when we stopped. We rode into 12000 plus feet several times. Enjoy the photos we took tons today with the drier weather.
Grand junction to crested butte
This morning was dry and sunny. We rode from grand junction over the grand mesa and the west side of gunnison. Then we stopped in montrose for lunch. The place was called the red barn best lunch i’ve ever had. Prime rib sandwhich rare melted mozz on chibata. Wow. Left lunch to do the east [...]
Gateway to moab to grand junction
Tuesday was a great day. We woke up at the gateway hotel after an evening swim and hot tub. Felt good on sore bones. Then we toured the gateway auto museum. It’s owned by the founder of the discovery channel. One of the finest auto museums in the USA. After that we headed out on [...]
Telluride to gateway.
woke up in telluride and took the gondola to breakfast. Rain rain rain this morning. But we rode it for a few hours and then it broke. Great day. Incredible stretch of highway though red rock mountains. Arrived at gateway resort. Its an adobe like hotel in the desert very nice. We checked in dropped [...]
Alpine loop. Silverton. Ouray
Wow. Beyond spectacular and very technical. mineral creek trail all the way down on 700lb bikes. Tiring. Now we are in ouray at 3pm for lunch. So far this experience is amazing. The only thing is i wish stacey could have come along. I know adam and joel would have loved this too.
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