A Summer Beyond: Part 2

Continued from...A Summer Beyond: Part 1

Montezuma's Revenge

Maybe it was a lack of serious riding this summer. Maybe it was my nutrition that day. I knew my plans were ambitious but it was a route I had been planning for two years. A big loop from Keystone up through Montezuma to the Continental Divide across to Georgia Pass and taking the Colorado Trail back to Keystone via Red Trail and The Aqueduct Trail.

This route knocked me down and turned my head into a bowl full of Jelly and once I reached the Colorado Trail I was done but it was still fun.....















The French Connection...a route around Mt Guyot during a wet summer day

It started wet and with Moose. Moose!



With a small high country twister in the background I thought it best to pull wheelies



Canyon Rat with an obscured Mt Guyot in the background.



Ancient Flume routes make good trails. This one relatively unknown



The Flume Wall













The top of French Pass, 12,046 ft

A Summer Beyond Part 1

Its been a busy and hectic year and my riding has been down quite a bit due to a summer that included 65-70 hour weeks at work and trying to keep that work, family, riding life balance flowing together. I could go into a bunch of boring meaningless drivel but these days for me, pictures speak louder then words. This may be split up into a multipart series.....

Father's Day. My wife helped me set up a shuttle of the Shingle Mill Trail in Buffalo Creek. Being the all around awesome Dad that I am, I can even turn an eight mile ride in an Epic for my girls with lightening, views and toad sized rain drops falling just as we reached the truck.







Jones Pass on July 4th has become a tradition. Crossing the Snow Cornice has always been dicey and seeing "Slow" falling/ sliding forty feet just about did me in even though he survived with a nervous laugh and nary a scratch.

Now you see him


Now you don't


Trying again


and back in the game


and then Boom...12,500 ft and we're riding the top of the world





to the high point of the day 13,215 ft where we enjoyed some shrooms



From there...we descend...to around 8,000 ft.















The next trip was up to Waldorf Mine and beyond to find an elusive trail Lubes and myself had heard about. We found it and more.













"Slow's" shot of me descending McClellan Mountain with Grays and Torreys in the background





Lubes and Slow's Sound of Music

Somewhere just under 13,000 ft







To be continued....