A couple weeks ago I finally took the pup mountain biking for the first time, and she did great. I finally had time to get a short video put together and up. As always, the quality will be better if you click through to the vimeo page.
Cycling
Kenosha Pass Mountain Biking and Leaf-Peeping
On Sunday, I finally made it up for a ride I’ve been wanting to get in for a couple years – Kenosha Pass during the height of the leaf-changing season. Hans and Tracy (of The Best Muffin Blog fame), Chris, Lauren, and I met on top of the pass early on Sunday to find 31F-degree temps. It was the first cold air I’ve experienced since spring, and I’m eager for more. Not a whole lot of words to go along with this one, just some photos of beautiful scenes.
Getting ready to head out:
Nice singletrack through the aspen:
Mt. Elbert Sunrise Bike Descent
I’d hoped to do this last summer, but schedules just never worked out. Everything came together this past weekend though – no one was busy with other plans, good weather was in the forecast (save a bit of wind), and there was a mostly-full moon.
Originally, we were going to start pretty early in the morning and finish up mid-day. I half-jokingly suggested to Andrew that we just do it overnight, summit at sunrise, and finish up early. After thinking about it for a minute, the overnight plan made a lot of sense – not having to wake up at 2am is always nice, and we’d miss the hordes of mid-day hikers by being off the mountain before most of them even started.
Mt. Elbert Bike Descent Video
Yesterday, I pushed my bike up and rode down Mt. Elbert with Andrew and Brian. Photos and words will be up in a day or two, but the video is ready now. If you’d like to watch the HD version (strongly recommended), click through to Vimeo’s website. Enjoy!
Bike Season’s Here!
This time of year is normally for long days climbing peaks and skiing back down, but this winter has been anything but normal. With the statewide snowpack below 50% of normal, I’ve only been on skis once in the past month. Unless something drastically changes, the skis are probably hung up for the year, with the possible exception of closing day. I’m in full-blown bike mode, and put together a little video of my first few rides of the year. Click through to Vimeo’s site for better video quality.
Denver Snow Day
I recently got a GoPro camera, and I put together my first video during the snowpocalypse that hit Denver last week. I’m really looking forward to getting some more experience with it. Enjoy!
Castle CX
Today was another great day at the bicycle races with the Happy Coffee Cycling and Frying Team.
Schoolyard Cross
I can say without a doubt that I’m on the best race team ever. No, we aren’t the biggest, or the winningest, but we are the happiest and funnest. Last Saturday was the Schoolyard Cross race up in Brighton, and we were in full-on party mode. I got there early to help set up and prepare for the day, and it was still pretty muddy.
Halloween at the Boulder Cup
The end of summer/start of fall has been a busy one, and I just realized it’s been over a month since my most recent update. I’ve been cramming in mountain biking and lots of training time, work (of course), and racing cyclocross, few of which are often conducive to photographing (CX excepted, I just never remember my camera). This past Sunday was the Boulder Cup race at Valmont Bike Park in Boulder, and it was a rough one.
Biking the Colorado Trail, Copper to Camp Hale
I got an email last week from Hans inviting me on a long-ish alpine ride, something I hadn’t done before but very much wanted to. There was talk of an early start, and 4:30am came far too early on Saturday morning. The full crew was Hans, Larry, Grant, Kelley, and myself. Several hours of driving to Copper Mountain, shuttling around to Camp Hale and back, then trying to find the start of the ride, and we were off – at about 10:15.
Through Polarized Eyes 