If'n....

you're wannin' ta read sumthin', read this - JJ rocks my world.

:-)

Ed

Help us build a new mountain bike trail on July 18th and 19th!!

Help us build a new mountain bike trail on July 18th and 19th

Because of the tremendous energy and enthusiasm our volunteers displayed on our first build weekend in May, we took a big first step towards building a new "black diamond" level mountain bike trail in the Buffalo Creek area of the Pike National Forest.

On July 18th and 19th we will take the next step to creating a community built mountain bike trail with advanced features like drops, steep rollers, wall rides and other technical problems which utlize the unique local terrain found in Buffalo Creek. Alternate lines will be built around the advanced features to make the trail accessible to a wide audience of experienced mountain bikers.

Our July 18th-19th build weekend will focus on completely new terrain and features.

We will move up the ridgeline where we will create our first significant drop and the accompanying singletrack route-around. Continuing our work uphill we will establish routes down significant sections of granite slickrock. For those excited about rock work, there will still be plenty of rocks to move, but overall we will be in quicker trail building territory on our July weekend.

This incredible opportunity to build a new advanced trail on public land is a product of over 12 years of effort, but the project will not succeed without your help. Please join us as a volunteer or volunteer crew leader by RSVP'ing to our trail building weekend at:

http://go.imba.com/site/Calendar/181312933?view=Detail&id=104641

For more information about this new trail please visit:

http://www.comba.org/build/current/bcbd

Jason Bertolacci
Colorado Mountain Bike Association
jason@comba.org
www.comba.org

Awesome!

Deanna Adams is still out there on her fixed gear bike and is about to complete her Divide TT - simply awesome! She will be the first person any of us know about to have completed the entire route on a fixed gear. And she's running a 46/17 ratio!!!!

Another recent finisher, Jill Homer, completed a couple of days ago, another great effort!

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For pictures, JJ has some great ones posted from her ride with friends today.

Me? I worked all day :-(

Listening to: Jeny ask me what time we should meet AJ and Michelle for our ride tomorrow. And I have no idea!

Ed

Bikin' and Hikin'

Hikin' and Bikin', all in a weekend's work.

Friday I swapped my good fork for the bad fork from the bad frame to the good frame.

On Saturday JJ and I biked then hiked then biked some more. We saw a total of four people on the trails the entire day. On the dirt roads leading up to the trails we saw a few more folks who appeared to be mostly newbies; helmetless parents riding with helmeted children and lost.

As we rode the singletrack and then rested we thought about friends who were racing the Firecracker 50 and sent them energy. We found cool hidden away spots that enchanted us. We rode through a freakin' shooting gallery that was definitely worthy of the 4th of July -- yay guns!

No cameras.

Sunday we hiked, all day, almost until dark.

We saw life...



and death...



sunshine....



and rain....



old hiding places...



and wide open vistas.



gnarled stone...



and wood...



and did I mention flowers?









To see the rest you can watch or click on the pause button and advance at your leisure.




Ed

Chris Plesko

Check out the 9news report and video of Chris - Cyclist takes on the Divide, with guts and no gears

Awesome! What an incredible ride for Chris.

There are still folks out on the course and our thoughts are with them. Deanna Adams is still pushing that fixed gear bike along with 1,700+ miles under her wheels. Dave Nice went out and provided some encouragement as she rode nearby his folk's home. Healing vibes to Pete Basinger who unfortunately was injured during the ride.

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Some reports are out on the 1st annual Spikefest held last weekend - Cal and Paul. There's a killer route in there!

Finally, an evening visitor after our daily thunderstorm today.

He also nibbled on our young aspens.


Hand whipped cream and fresh strawberries, mmmmmmm.

Ed