A Snowy Day in June

The front range was bombarded with cool weather and rain this weekend. Mrs. Goat had a busy schedule going on and that meant I needed to be home by lunch on Sunday. With all the Denver trails socked in by mud that meant I needed to get creative to get in a ride.

To Georgetown we go. I knew there would be snow falling, I just had no idea if it would be sticking.

The ride started nice enough...a lovely moist forest

But as soon as we hit 9,000 ft...it became this

At over 10,000 ft the snow was getting to be inches thick and showed no signs of slacking off

We decided to skip the FATS trail and head down Silverdale to get to Silver Creek.

But fate decided we should cut this show short and gave Guac a flat and a chance to look like a leprechaun

While Guac was fixing the flat, this gave me a chance to take some fartsy pics

After fixing the flat, we discovered Silverdale to be covered in limbs and leaves heavy with wet snow, smacking us in the face, driving wet snow down our collars and into our gloves

Finally we broke free of the heavy limbs

But our spirits were broken, so frustrated and freezing, we called it a day and bailed on our route with 20 miles left to go