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RR: Great Weekend!
Ride-A-Lot wrote:
Shawn wrote: Ride-A-Lot wrote: Paladin wrote: Wow, beautiful stuff. And some of it looks pretty fun and technical, too. CDB celebrating spring. My kind of weather! Trees are blooming! I saw lots of prairie dogs (yeah, I know about the plague) over the weekend too. And the bugs are back as well! My peach tree is blooming too early. There will certainly be more freezes, so no Peaches this year :-( Shawn Wow, you can plant fruit trees in this climate? What about Magnolias? Will they survive? I think it's too cold for magnolias. Apples and plums do very well on the Front Range. Peaches only produce fruit once every few years. It has to be cold enough to prevent blooming until after the last hard freeze. Of course, the best peaches in the country come from western Colorado. :-) Shawn |
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RR: Great Weekend!
On Mar 18, 7:09 pm, Ride-A-Lot wrote:
The Winter here has been a little rougher than expected. Snow came early in the season and it seemed like it would stick around for a while. This is Colorado after all. Once the sun says it wants to come back, it takes over. This was the weekend it was coming back for a vengence. It had been in the 70's for almost two weeks, which really helped to melt and dry things off. It certainly isn't making the snow resorts happy (they are losing 3" a day), but I stopped skiing when the crowds came. I have been on the road bike, but dirt was calling my name. So, after checking local conditions, I decided to give Mathew Winters/Dakota Ridge a try. Actually, this was my first time at this park. I just never got around to it before, but it can certainly become one of my favorites if not for the one big ploblem - massive hords of trail users. Weather was perfect, if not hot but who cares. I was on dirt again! http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/IMG_5501.jpg http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/IMG_5502.jpg http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/IMG_5503.jpg All of the trails were pretty much the same as the above photos. Dry! I encounted one wet spot where a stream basically ran across the trail and thats it. A little snow on the side of the hill where the slide trail goes up, but not effecting the trail. Just prime conditions to be out. Red Rocks trail was a fun filled speed fest, until I got lost by the theater and couldn't find the way down to Dakota Ridge trail. http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/IMG_5506.jpg http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/IMG_5507.jpg http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/IMG_5509.jpg And great views. http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/IMG_5511.jpg http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/IMG_5512.jpg http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/IMG_5513.jpg But after milling around the greatest rock venue in the country, I finally found the way down and ultimately up Dakota Ridge. Yeah, up. As usually I went the wrong way the fun happens. http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/IMG_5515.jpg Going down this would be a blast. Going up was torture. http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/IMG_5516.jpg http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/IMG_5517.jpg Then more up hill umtil I came to the aply named slab. I had to turn around and at least give it a try. Nice. http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/IMG_5520.jpg http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/IMG_5521.jpg Pending doom. Nah, I didn't jump. http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/IMG_5525.jpg More fun (if I were going down the hill ). http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/IMG_5527.jpg I did manage to fall off the back of the bike going down the rolling ramp waterbars. I guess I was a little too far back on my stomach. The temporary castration that insued was not fun. http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/IMG_5528.jpg Finally reaching the top it was back down to the car, but the rocky fun was gone. http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/daktop.jpg http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/daksat.jpg http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/dakpro.jpg That night the band got together for a private St. Patties party. I don't know where I got the energy, but what the heck. More fun. http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/IMG_5541.jpg http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/IMG_5543.jpg http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/IMG_5556.jpg Sunday brought more riding and a lot of it. I hooked up with Keith and company for an urban assult to Waterton Canyon. Another beautiful day, great riding, and good friends. We made it to the middle of the canyon climb and stopped. Then on the way back we stop at the resevior and lo and behold, my camera is not there. I left it up at the spillway. Keith and I head back adding another five miles to the ride while Stu gets my car to meet us at the bottom. Thirty nine miles later (on the 26" bike), we meet at the parking lot. Yup, the camera was right where I left it! http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/IMG_5560.jpg http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/IMG_5563.jpg http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/IMG_5564.jpg http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/IMG_5565.jpg http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/IMG_5566.jpg http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/IMG_5567.jpg http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/IMG_5569.jpg http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/wattop.jpg http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/watsat.jpg http://www.schnauzers.ws/images/031807/watpro.jpg -- o-o-o-o Ride-A-Lot o-o-o-owww.schnauzers.ws You didn't show the goats at Waterton Canyon? And you didn't ride any rock sections, Poochums, why are you being naughty and trying to deceive? |
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