Spikefest 2009: 3 Passes and some old Flumes

This past weekend Ol Spike set up a one of a kind route along with some camping to celebrate camaraderie and riding bikes for the 1st Annual Spikefest. Spike and his crew were throwing down 85 miles adding an additional 35 miles I didn't think my legs were ready for. So I met up with Lubes and PBR at 4:30am for approx 53 miles from Kenosha Pass to Breckenridge to Como

We got a car dropped in Como and were on the Colorado Trail by 6:20

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PBR being chased by the morning sun

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Me on the Colorado Trail, photo by PBR

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Lubes full of smiles

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PBR taking a serious approach to the views

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Still a few small snow drifts on the east side of Georgia Pass at treeline

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Me, photo by PBR

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Lubes cranking up to Georgia Pass

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PBR almost to Georgia Pass

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On over to the Breck side of Georgia Pass

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Where probably two dozen snow drifts awaited our tracks

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Watch your step, photo by PBR

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A good ol death march isn't quite right without a little drinkin involved

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A few marshes were to be hiked

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and lots of route finding

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Sometimes we even hung our bikes out to dry

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and rode tons of old flume like this

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and this

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Might be getting familiar now for those of you who have been training on the Fire Cracker Course

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We started running into all sorts of folks at this point including Kerkove, Sonya, DJ Birtch, Rebecca Toma wiki wiki, and several others who I didn't recognize.

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PBR at Little French Gulch

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Sally Barber Mine

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Shot of Sally Barber Mine by PBR

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going down

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down

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down into Breckenridge for some refreshments from the local convenient mart

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Then a climb back up Boreas Pass, course we took all the singletrack options to go up

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Baker's Tank

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A rest stop at the top of the pass

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We finished the day on an awesome singletrack descent off the pass.

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GPS died on the last miles of the ride..show 7,800 ft of climbing with 97% of the route being over 10,000 ft and our high point for the day being 11,870. PBR's cpu shows around 55.5 miles. Sweet!

I plan on coming back for some retribution though. Somehow I only drank 2 liters of fluids and and one liter of that was in the last 20 miles. What was I thinking? No wonder I started bonking out on Boreas!

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