Our friend Drew, J and I took a drive up to Breck for our first cycling trip of the season. Our original plans were a little-over 30 mile ride around the lake with lots of fun up- and downhills at altitude to get us going. We were following the directions out of the newest 5280 Magazine which listed this cycling path. Somewhere along the way, the writers of 5280 were not clear in their directions (at least to our group) and we missed the turn off for the lake. We decided to just keep taking our original trail (the Blue River Trail) all the way to Copper. It was supposed to be a little over 30 miles as well so we were all for the same amount of distance. Unfortunately, as one can tell from the map below, we had to stop short of Copper as there was an enormous amount of snow and ice covering the entire trail. We put up with it for a little bit but when we arrived at one large patch that stretched all the way around a bend in the trail as far as we could see we decided that it was time to turn around.
Great pictures though! ;)
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| Our trail from Breck to Copper. Just about 14 miles one way to where we biked: Breck Rec Center to just outside of Copper. |
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| J and I at one point along the scenic path. |
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| J after we navigated one of the stretches of ice and snow (by walking our bikes across). |
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| This is from where we stopped, looking back on what we had done. In the other direction there was nothing on the trail but snow and ice as far as you could see. |
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| Threesome! Arranged in height order too. Ugh. :P |
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| J doing his thing. That's the expression I should have. |
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| Me doing my thing. I only look like I know what I'm doing. |
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| Leaving Breck we decided to drive home heading over Loveland Pass. First you take Swan Mountain Road which presented us with this gorgeous view of the lake we were supposed to have cycled (taken from Sapphire Point). |
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| Loveland Pass. |
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| Had to take a goofball picture. It was rather warm in Breck when we finished our ride. The nice warm weather didn't last at the top of the pass. |
-TJ
2 comments:
That last picture is like "find what's wrong with this picture"
We really just photoshopped ourselves in to that shot. Shhh... ;)
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