mullerb's musings

A fast and fairly flat ramble to the north from work. Those climbs last week pay off! The legs feel like horses :-)

Shuttled Kelly and her school gang up to Allenspark for outdoor ed on Sat and Sun. Both days I took a few hours to explore some of the tracks in the woods up there. Still a bit snowy at 9,000+ft but the benies to that is that there are few people around. Saturday I drove from Meeker Park down County RD82 to the west end of Big Elk Meadows up to where I was thwarted by private property. Then I took the bike off the rack and road up a gated Forest Service road up towards House Rock for 4 miles until the snow got too deep. On Sunday, I hit up Bunce School Road, which goes for Allenspark to Peaceful Valley. I did about 8 miles round trip on pretty decent but muddy and snowy road. There's some neat rock formations back there, the Ironclads, I think is what they're called.

Climbing mode. Didn't do the loop due to time constraints. Getting warm on those climbs! Legs are strong but the conditioning is lacking... Need to check out the roads by Wagon Wheel Gap more for a loop to the south.

A nice long ride with Lightly to kick off the season. Sat AM with Kelly at a sleepover and Leah waiting for Natalie to swing by, we had a great day with perfect temps in the 50's for climbing. A snow flake or two up near Goldhill but nothing to bad. A bit chilly for the descent down Sunshine though.