Weekend Fun

Headed to Nederland, CO with Chris Hall (aka Fuzzy) and Julia Manley on Saturday for some mountain bike racing action. We pre-rode the course Saturday night. I had no idea how high Eldora was. I honestly thought it was just outside of Boulder, and might be around 6500feet. Wrong, it was around 9000feet. Ya. I just got to Colorado on Wednesday, and am definitely not acclimated! The pre-ride was hard. I was going at a recovery pace but my heart, lungs, and legs said different. The course was fun though. Lots of climbing, some technical decents (that reminded me of Mt. Snow), and some fast flowy sections. Would have been a great race, if I had been out here a little while longer. So Saturday night we camped. It was a good time. Sunday morning we all woke up and decided not to race. It would have been a waste of money (at least for Chris and I). We both arrived earlier this week and Julia has been living here all summer. Anyway, we decided to go check out some trails outside of Nederland. Founds some cool trails and spent a few hours on them. Then we tried to go up Rollins Pass. That's where things got epic. It was a fun weekend, and I don't really feel like typing much longer. So enjoy the picture story!!
-A

This is from a ride I did earlier this week. The views never get old out here in Colorado.

Ya. Luckily we didn't go climbing, just acted like tourist and looked at the pretty waterfall (shown below).

The pretty waterfall.

Storms a brewin' in the mountains.

Checking out the views. This is part of the ride we did when we were originally planning on racing.

Long story short, I had to borrow a Trek kit. Kind of weird to think it actually fit...

Yay, mountains!

The start of our epic journey to Rollins Pass. Julia came prepared.

Blue skies, pretty views.

Nothin' but pot holes. It was crazy. Glad I don't get too motion sick.

The afternoon storm produced lots of hail. This is just the beginning of it. Pea-sized at first.

That's hail, not snow.

The temperature was around 44degrees. Brr...
More hail.
For real.