To Fruita we go! Team Alford packed up the increasingly tiny Subaru with a Moots, a Yeti, a Specialized Hotrock, or as Trout likes to call it, his "shark bike", tents, sleeping bags, pillows (roughin' it!), various super heroes, soccer balls, picture books, Tonka trucks and a lot of Trout's stuff and tore outta Dodge directly at the whistle, sliding down the brontosaurus' back and right onto the road a la F. Flintstone. Despite driving the whole way I have no memory of anything until coughing up $7 to the Iron Ranger at Highline at about 10pm. Ding! Fries are done!
Yes, Trout's wearing a cape. Why? You got some sorta problem with that?
Chainsaw got to hot lap Horsethief and Prime Cut while Highroller checked out the 18 Hrs of Fruita course (emminently singlespeedable!) and then hit up Joe's Ridge and the Kessel Run on Sunday. Trout rode all over the place but decided he wasn't quite ready to remove the training wheels yet. Everyone's got their own kinda kryptonite...
Palisade, CO. Sweet Riverside Park in a sweet little downtown area. Worth a looksee next time you're rolling through with a good looking cafe, bike shop! winery and more. As you can tell by the pix the weather was AA+ perfect Colorado Fall.
I'm perilously close to poneying up for 18 Hrs of Fruita in order to kick myself into getting back in shape AND finishing building up my Moots ss...
ReplyDeleteThat looks like so much fun. Cant wait to join in next year.
ReplyDeleteI think we may have hit the last warm-ish weekend with no snowy roads on I-70 to get there. It was a great weekend! The mtn bike is getting stuffed in the basement and the skiis are coming OUT! Yee haw!
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