Here are all the posts I’ve been meaning to write for the last several weeks….in pics.
Apr 20 The only pic I took at Sea Otter: Getting on the plane Monday am after the race.
Apr 24 Riding Josies at Hartman Rocks with the love of my life, Suzee, know to most as Susan (I only call her that if I'm mad at her which is...never!)
Same ride. Suzee further down the trail. Great day!
Apr 28 Spring still hasn't come to 8,500. Rare aspens at Hartmans.
Apr 25 My dad was visiting from Denver and we got the hoop up for the boys. Big day!
Apr 29 Spring skiing with next door neighbor, Wick, and Chris and the crew from Dynafit.
Wick, well into Plan B, with the Elk Mountains in the background.
Some of the crew working their way up the ridge to Mt Emmons.
The reward. Nice tracks down a north shot of Emmons.
May 1 Great friend and GT Partner, Jason (Woody) Stubbe, along with girlfriend Sara Gillis, happened to be traveling out of Gunnison the same day as Suzee and I. Here, Woody poses in front of a favorite haunt of ours at DIA on concourse B from our bike racing traveling days.
Ales and Trails, IMBA California fund raiser at China Camp in the Bay Area. Was that bridge made for a bike or what?
More Ales and Trails. Hearty riders on a wet day.
May 3 Knobs on the road. Ridgecrest Road on Mt Tam, that is. This is where lots of car commercials are filmed.
A common site on Tam: nectar trail complete with No Bikes sign.
I only had my MTB but it was still fun to ride these roads. It was between storms so the afternoon was dry but there were lots of clouds hanging around.
From Ridgecrest looking across the Tam watershed toward Santa Rosa.
A Trail (closed to bikes) that drops from Ridgecrest to the ocean.
A rock high on Tam toward the end of this 4 hour ride with 6500+ vert.
But not quite done yet, this next sequence is of what I think are ramshackle, cold war left overs all around the actual peaks of Tam off of East Ridgecrest.
Rusty fence surrounding this place.
The once highly fortified now just locked entrance to ????
May 4 Suzee and I were out early to beat the next storm. From Mill Valley, we climbed the ridge and descended Muir Woods road to the Coastal Highway (Highway 1). This is looking south as we headed toward Stinson Beach.
Looking north to Stinson Beach.
Stinson Beach.
Just another pretty picture high up on Tam.
After Suzee headed back to Mill Valley, I came across this crew up on Ridgecrest. Remember the bit about the car commercials?
So these guys are from a certain auto manufacturer in Japan. They had a couple of cars and a film crew and the whole deal.
And they were none too keen on me taking pictures. I was told to stop. Notice the swine flu masks as this was at the height of that scare. Another dry ride adjancent to stormy weather; another 4 hours and this time over 7000 vert on my Suunto. I can't even get close to that vert around Gunni. And speaking of Gunni, it was back to there the next day.
May 7 A bit of trail above Gunnison from the Growler Series race #2 on one fine evening.
May 10 Sunday Tuff Guy Road Ride. That's Woody on top of North Pass, one of the loneliest roads in Colorado. It makes Highway 50 feel like I-70.
From North Pass; the isolated east slope of the Cochetopa Hill country.
May 17 High noon over the Colorado River near Fruita. I was lucky enough to get to ride with Jim, Will and Chris from FRS. They were out for a few days from SoCali.
The Crew: Young Chris, Will McBurney, and Jim Murphy
Who's the photographer around here?
Jim shredding eastern Moore Fun.
May 24 The Original Growler rolls out of Gunnison!
Suzee on her way to victory in the 32-mile Half Growler.
Hartman Rocks native and eventual 2nd place finisher in the Full Growler Jeff Irwin.
Jun 8 Early AM ride at Hartmans. The camera hasn't come out for a while...
The view from the top of Joshos looking toward Crested Butte. And that brings this post to a conclusion.
