Monday, August 17, 2009

Jill of the downhill


From Winter Park DH



It was all planned out so well. Frumpy and Grumpy would watch Cooper at Sarah's Friday, and Jill and I would get a day of downhilling in at Winter Park. Jill loves to downhill, and being pregnant last year and a broken arm earlier this year, she hasn't gotten to rip the downhills in quite some time.

But it wasn't to be on Friday. We crested Berthoud pass on our way and the car thermometer read a crisp 42 degrees with light drizzle. Ugh. We tried to wait it out, but we didn't have the clothes nor desire to fly down the hills on the cold, wet day. So we turned around and headed back home.

MJ graciously offered to watch Super Cooper, all while helping Sarah out with Reece, so we took her up on the offer as our time is running out on the season up there. The weather looked cool, but much better than Friday. We took lots of warm clothes, dropped of Coop and headed up to find much more pleasant riding conditions.

We bought 1/2 day tickets, which were good from 9:30 to 1pm. By 10am we were at the top and heading back down. The first run, as always, was a warm-up run and our pace was slow to start but it increased with each run.

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From Winter Park DH


From Winter Park DH


From Winter Park DH



Winter Park has quite a few new trails, and with the new trails and lots more traffic come bumps. Good thing we've both gots lots of suspension now, we used it all. Lots of little kicker jumps around were fun to launch off, and we pounded out runs quickly.


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From Winter Park DH


From Winter Park DH


From Winter Park DH


From Winter Park DH



We blazed down the trail in record time, and just barely caught the chair up at 12:58 just before our 1pm lift ticket cutoff. One more run for posterity sake, and to make sure we were good and tired. Great day on the mountain, 30 miles of downhill our biggest day on the mountain.

The only downside of the day was Jill taking a dirt digger on the jump that I'm hitting in the photo above. I got the words you never want to hear from another biker passing by...

"Dude, better check your girl, she went down up there"

Shortly after that she appeared and assured me she was fine. Quick trip to grab some first aid and we were back on track again. Her she poses with her latest battle scars...


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