After a good night's rest, we woke up to intense sunshine here in Vail. Mid morning we loaded up the bikes and drove a couple of miles to a fire road. We hit the uphill climb and felt the altitude indeed. For the first 6 miles we had a gradual climbed that took about an hour.
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| Heading up the fire road. |
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| At the top of the climb we were at a little over 10,000 ft. |
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| From there it was about a mile of trail to Lost Lake. Lots of downed trees to cross. |
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| This is 4 year old Christopher. He was practicing his casting with only a cork. Cool kid. |
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| After lunch and rest at the lake, we headed for the section of single track. |
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| In the distance you can see Vail mountain and the ski runs. |
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| The last of our 16.5 mile trip was back down the fire road. Got up to 34 mph, a little scary on dirt! |
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| We had one mechanical problem which Andrew rigged with thick paper and string. |
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| The boys showing off their lovely tan lines (I was on my way to try my hand at fly fishing when I took this.) I was on the river for a couple of hours, no fish, but good for the soul. I saw a mule deer grazing and a humming bird. |
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| This is the garage of our host, Mike. Needless to say we are good to go with equipment. |
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After a great first day on the mountain, we headed into Vail village for pizza. Later on I went by a local coffee shop and met a couple who both graduated from Baylor (they knew one of my good friends Meredith Ripley.) The girl's brother went to ACU. Small world.
2 comments:
Awesome sis!
From Mati and Zeke: cool pics, Aunt B!
Enjoy that sweet mountain air and catch some air for us! (but land it, not body-over-bike, like I do).
Hey guys! Katie I was bragging on you to one of the kids while we were headed up the dirt road. (No suspension, no padding, never mountain biked...and you made it on a tough trail at altitude!) Crashes don't mean you're a bad rider, but that you're getting better by pushing your limits (within reason, of course) Love ya!
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