Semi-Lazy weekend in the mountains - June 30th

We were all packed and planning on heading the Crested Butte this weekend but I had been wavering all day while at work on whether I wanted to do the drive and put up with the bugs and the crowds that would likely be there for the end of the Fat Tire festival. We were literally in the car leaving Boulder when we decided to stay closer to home for the weekend instead.

We got up fairly late Saturday morning and headed up to around the Keystone/Frisco area intending on deciding up there what we wanted to ride. We knew for sure we wanted to stop in at Keystone and watch some of the first stop in the G3 Gravity Series. But beyond that we were undecided between riding Searle Pass (a section of the Colorado Trail next to Copper Mountain) or perhaps downhilling at Vail. So we packed all 3 bikes that would let us choose E) - any of the above.



Strapping the 3rd bike to the top actually worked surprisingly well.

We also found a great camping spot just of the road from Copper the Leadville that had all the traffic noise muffled by the river flowing noise.

Suffice to say we didn't get much riding in. We eventually decided that Searle Pass was the preferred option and headed over there after lunch on Saturday only to find that the normal parking lot up near the stables was now a work site for even more condo's for the resort. We didn't really feel like find another parking lot that wasn't close by and bailed on the Saturday ride option and headed back to Keystone to watch more of the racing.

In the afternoon I did a little fishing in the stream by the camp, it was fun but unsuccessful.





Sunday morning we once again got up and decided that we should try Searle Pass again and headed down to Copper Mountain and found a parking lot closer to the trail head. Sadly we got about 2 mile into the climb when Amber realized that her bike (which was her old Cake since the Mojo was mailed to Oregon) had no brakes at all.

Searle Pass is an 8 mile out and back with most of the riding on the way back all being fast and fun downhill - no brakes doesn't work so well for that sort of thing. My Mojo was also riding really funky and it wasn't until the end of the ride I realized I had the seat set much to high after I had swapped to Speedball seat post.

We took it as a sign and bailed on riding all together and headed back to home early to avoid the traffic.

It ended up being a fun and relaxing weekend but mostly lazy. We decided to leave the tent set up and to come back up Tuesday night to ride Searle Pass on the Holiday (July 4th).