Saturday, June 2, 2012

Thursday Night Ride - 5/24


For the second week in a row, we were missing Rick Holscher. Rick is good at coming up with an epic ride that allows us to finish at Sunray before they shut off the pizza oven.

I thought we would ride Hard Guy to the ridge, descend 8th Street to 4 (Dave's) head back up to the ridge, descend 5 Mile/Watchman/3Bears. Somehow we left the Dog Park at Military Reserve and headed up Mountain Cove Rd. instead of heading up Bogus Basin Road in attempt to get to Hard Guy the quickest way possible. Oops, bad leadership on my part for not explaining the route better.

So, we zipped up the Military Connector to Freeway. We ran across West Water sponsor, Clay Landry, and his fiancé, Jen just before reaching the Hulls Gulch junction. We continued up to the Motorcycle Parking lot and crossed over to Corral's. Zuber and a couple of the others made the executive decision to climb Scott's to 8th Street as we wouldn't have enough daylight to make it up Hard Guy and across the ridge. This ride basically became a reverse of the week prior. We stopped to snag a couple photos at the Trail 4/4a junction before heading up Trail 4 to the Ridge. (group photo and Zuber playing on Trail 4) We had a chilly descent down a much chewed up "Trail of Tears". (see the photo of the sheep)

Instead of riding Watchman, we descended 5 Mile Gulch to Rocky Canyon Road. I don't think I've looked forward to climbing back up to 3 Bears as much before. (it was really chilly -- and I personally was wondering if watching the Exergy Prologue would have been smarter) The nice thing about a chilly Thursday evening is there was almost zero traffic for the descent of 3 Bears.

Pizza and beer at Sunray came along with the usual tall tales from previous adventures.



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