More Winter Park

100 degrees on the Front Range meant another pilgrimage to Winter Park for some relief from the heat in the form off lift-assisted downhilling. Some of trails I wanted to try out were closed, but we took some new and different routes to mix things up. We ended up doing some climbing at times, much to the angst of Jill, but found some cool trails. Here are some of the pics:


Jill focused on the corner
 

Sarah out in front of random rider
 

Jill rails a corner
 

A happy couple
  

Here I am driving into a rough corner

What goes up (the lift), must come down. Fast.

Jill & I hit Winter Park again yesterday for some more lift-aided downhill runs. Crowds were light and conditions were much more bearable at 9k feet than they were on the Front Range where temps hit 103 yesterday. Still a warm day for being at a ski resort, but quite pleasant zipping down the mountains.

The unfortunate part of the day is that I think Jill is going to have to fire her bike mechanic. First off this guy didn't get her quick release sufficiently tight and her wheel started to come loose on the first run down. Geez, this guy is a joke. Then I realized he has her front brake poorly mounted. Ugh. I've got some words for this guy.

So the second run down Jill's front brake went out, and we had to take the easy roads down. Luckily I was able to buy a new brake cable and some housing at the bike shop at the base and get it fixed up while we ate some lunch. After a couple tweaks, we were back in business with functioning brakes, which is typically a good thing to have when riding downhill.



We ended up making 5 runs up & down. We thought about trying some new trails out but we were both having a good time on the old standby of Cheyenne to Long Trail that we just did that run each time. Its a good, fast run that had little traffic. Nothing real technical on it, but its just fun to rip down the twisty singletrack and buzz through the trees.