Mike met me at Little Scraggy parking lot outside of Buffalo Creek about 9am this morning and we had a wondrous 4 hours of riding and leisurely hour lunch on a warmish day for mid-November in Colorado. It started off in the 30’s and warmed to the 40’s. We heard the winds in the trees, but didn’t feel them until we entered the burn area on Shinglemill Trail.
No idea of distance and I’m not sure if Mike had a computer. We rode the Colorado Trail over hill and dale, a few creeks, lots of roots and a few rock gardens. Eventually the rifles in the distance we getting too close for my brain, so we turned around and made a loop of it on the trails north of the CT. We dropped down to Buffalo Creek Road, a nice double track that follows the creek down, then turned up Shinglemill for a vigorous, fun, twisting smooth climb through the Buffalo Creek Fire burn area. No trees meant the 30-40 mph winds we’d been hearing had free access to us. I learned that winding single track, steep climbing, and strong gusting cross winds do not play nicely with vertigo. I limped along after that, making it back to the parking lot at 2pm. MIke was a joy to ride with and I look forward to the next time we get to ride. Thanks, Mike! With abandon, Patrick www.MindYourHeadCoop.org www.OurHolyConception.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
