Ridley critiquing my Garmin data

Another snowy morning

Tandeming

Another successful night of homebrew tasting and tandem riding with another happy tandem basket passenger served.

Bike warshin'

It's warm enough to give the hoopty rides their first real bath of the year!

What's been going on...

We can finally go outside!

(Best statue ever?)

Colorado whiskey flight at Kannah Creek Brewery.

Speaking of Kannah, the new brewing/bottling/sandwich place is coming along nicely.

No idea what this means.

And Ridley is still Ridley.

Hiking Coal Creek

Wednesday morning Matt and I headed over to the Grand Mesa for a little bit of hiking on the Coal Creek Trail.

 The sun coming up at the trailhead.

The hike follows Coal Creek toward the top of the Mesa.  It is a very well maintained trail even with some areas that still had 6" of snow on the ground.  The trail also meanders through part of two different fires that occurred in the past three years.

 Matt is a forest firefighter, that's how I know these things.

We turned around after a couple miles and a bunch of climbing at the first place where the trail crossed Coal Creek.  There was a nice bridge and some huge Ponderosa Pines.

 See Matt at the base of the Pondo?

The view of the half-frozen Coal Creek from the bridge.

The climbing involved was a bit of a challenge but the trail is very well maintained and the views are totally worth it.  We also saw a couple elk and several deer out there.  Not bad for a couple hours on the trail.

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