Dirty South in Colorado

Only a month after the invasion and I finally get some more of these up.
The places we will ride, notice the Private Property sign next to Ziska. "Honestly, Officer, I thought we were on public land."

Peatie came along for a few shuttle rides. We made him do all the driving.

Loo...aero visor mode. Camera...shutter too slow for Loo's madness.

Loo, so fast that he had time to read the paper while waiting on us.

The boys with local CT and John after a dirty day at Keystone.

Z.

Loo.

Loo could always send it at least a bike length further than most.

CT.

The hot tub. Where else would 5 men hang out in a condo. Good think Karl wasn't there.

We saw fox all over the place. They were all pretty scruffy looking, so Loo tossed one of them his left over PB&J. I'm sure the peanut butter was a real treat, especially on the side of a mountain with no water around.

The entry...

...the fallout, front tire over the berm.

Sweet hip jump to session, Loo later went so big he almost landed flat.

Z.

Me, still need more work on the hips. I think I just launched straight and about ate the bark off the tree in front of me.

After dinner I was still hungry, so I got a loaf of bread to go and sat out front munchin' it.

I was the first out of the truck into the condo, then when I came out later I found all the doors wide open. Go figure.

Loo, in his uber hip, cool weather riding kit.

Scuba.

Traveling...

I've been on the go too much to post up the pics from when Loo, Scuba, and Ziska were here. I still have some good ones to put up. This blogspot isn't as quick and user friendly as I think it could be when uploading photos.

I made it up to Laramie, WY a few days after Loo left for Jubalee days, rodeo, street parties, and some good biking. Then camping this past weekend camping outside Colorado Springs. Now I am in Michigan with family.

This past weekend was the Nationals at Sol Vista. I wanted to head up there and see some of the racing but I booked too many things. I saw the doubles they were building for the pro course and they were huge, I heard one of them was 48' lip to lip and they put makers down the landing out to 90' so see how far the pros were landing. I found this clip on youtube that showed the course pretty good. It looks like Gerritt got 5th place. I would like to hear what he thought about the course. Winning time was around 2:11.

I post up more stuff when I get back.

Marathon

This past few days and the ones to come are what I always figured that I would be living out here in Colorado, but haven't fully utilized yet.
Fri - XC ride cut short by rain at Deer Creek with Pam
Sat - 25 mi XC at Buffalo Creek with Pam
Sun - 30+ min DH runs with Pam, Postin and Sarah
Mon - 25 mi XC with Postin and Sarah at Buff Creek
Tues - work on sprinklers at Pam's house
Wed - DH with Loo and Ziska
Thurs - DH with Loo, Z, and Scuba

Then Fri, Sat at Sol Vista
Sun, Mon at Keystone
Tuesday maybe a rest day.
Sweet weeks. Here are some pics from the past few days.

IMBA rated Buffalo Creek as an epic ride. Me and Pam headed there on Saturday for a 25 mi loop. The trails were all super fun, buff, and twisty. The trails took us thru dense woods and forests and the remains of the 1996 fire.
Pam at the beginning of the day.

Pam, not keeping both hands on the wheel.

Me on some turns.

Over head on Pam.

Me, practicing my whips.

Left...

Right...

Left...

Brian Postin at the top of the 30+ min downhill. He was riding with Pam and Sarah, but Ziska, Loo, and Scuba got the time down to 25 min over the 2800 vertical feet. The trail was super fast and sorta smooth, not too technical.

Brian.

Sarah.

Sarah.

Sarah and Pam.

Here is a shot of what we just went down, we started up by the clear swatches that makes up Echo Mountain ski area and came down 2800 vertical feet into the valley below.

Then I took Brian over to some way more technical trails. Here is Brian on a trail that Cole built.

Brian riding what some would walk.

Brian, walking what most would ride!

Dinner afterword.

Brian showing off his awesome table manners.

Then I took Brian and Sarah where me and Pam has just been, at Buffalo Creek. It was a sweet ride. But, Pam had to work that day.

Dragging the foot again.

Brian, about doubled over after the huge effort up a technical section. Sea Level to 9000 feet in 2 days takes a lot out of a man.

I thought I was the only one who puffed my cheeks out when I did something that I had to put a little effort into, like jumping. But, apparently Brian is that way too.

We traversed the bottom area of those two peaks you see in the background and wrapped around to here.

Straight from the airport with Loo and Ziska, we went up DHing on some of the gnarlier trails around. I was a wise guy and didn't wear my upper body armor and went over the bars and slow speeds and still got pretty scratched up. But not enough to slow me down. We were back at it the next day.

Morewoods loaded up and heading to the airport to pick up Scuba Steve.

First stop, Scott's back yard in Evergreen. This place was so over my head I need a 10' snorkel just to breath. I think we only tapped about 5% of what was here. The grand daddy was a 20' blind step down, it was super crazy. His place was built up top notch with doubles , berms, wall rides, gaps, step downs, some wooden stunts, duel slalom course and more. I would progress there so much if I only could ride there everyday for a month.

Loo on the wall ride right off Scott's back porch.

Ziska.

I did a horrible job of taking any more action pics, everyone was so huge I was cutting heads off in the pics. In the back ground you can see a HUGE double behind the wood platform. It was the finale to the 6 pack before it. We never hit that stuff because we ran out of time, but it would have been right up Loo's alley.

Part of the 6 pack before the monster double. Scott even had his irrigation hooked up to water all the jump faces at the flip of a switch. It was set up 1st rate.

Then back to shuttling. Loo, Me, Steve.

Elk crossing on shuttle road. There were two Does and two fawns.

Look over hucking the small road gap.

Mark, making a super smooth transition.

Figured I better post some of these up now, or I never would. I'll put up some from the bike parks when we get back.