Tour De Fraser/Winter Park

This past weekend it became a search for another ride that I have to do. Living in Colorado a little less then two years, its not hard to do. Winter Park has been on my watch list for a while so I called Guacamole who was game for an all dayer, so to the Park we go!

Crossing the Trestles

Notice the Goat's Fancy outfits are back. I thought they would help me fly but good ol Guacamole talked me out of it.

Rifle Sight Notch Trestle

View of Winter Park Resort from the Rifle Sight Notch Trestle

Then we go down..down...down..Broken Thumb

a few miles of dirt roads and a connector brings us to the Idlewild Trails where I give ode to the Whoops!

and these trails give way to going wicked fast!

A barn in Winter Park

a few miles of bike path and road lead us past a KFC where the lure of a large box of potato wedges was to alluring

after a great meal of wedges it was on to the Fraser Parkway

Givelo Trail

When Guacamole looked over and saw me reading my map and route finding while cruisin a dirt road at 12-14 mph I thought he'd pee his pants from laughing so hard

This all eventually led us to the infamous Tipperary Creek

and eventually Flumes and Creekside and another dirt road to the top of Zoom

a view of the Elk Meadows

The idea is getting to be the same, a few more roads and trails bring us to the Sunken Bridge and eventually Elk Mountain where thunder storms chased but never caught us

A failed attempt at crossing Vasquez Creek, the current was moving to fast, threatening to sweep my legs out from beneath me so we tucked our tails and took a few dirt roads to get to the Blue Sky Trail.

Ice Hill, a fun little trail that leads us to Serenity and back to our vehicle some 9 and a half hours and 65 miles after we started our little adventure. I'm sure that time could've been a couple of hours shorter but a little route finding required pulling the map no less then 20 times and that nap beside the creek was delightful.