Building a patio

Our friend Tom Conville called us. He needed help to rebuild a patio for someone. In payment, we might get a free spot to park the snowmobile trailer for the winter. That is worth quite a bit since it can cost us $75 per month to park it elsewhere. Sarah took pictures of me managing the construction and doing the heavy work. We wanted to prove to Stojan that I actually work sometimes.

Flattops Moto biking

With Sarah out of town I decided to do an overnight camping trip up to the Flattops. I road 50 miles on Monday afternoon and then 87 miles on Tuesday. Great weather and fun roads. I visited some new areas. Always learning the terrain better and better. However, I probably didn't find any better riding areas for the snowmobiles than we already know about. As you can see, without the wife around to take pictures of, I had to take pictures of my bike.

Blair mountain view

Snow still around on some drifted area
Another view from the top of Blair Mountain (click for full size)

Snow in August

On August 16 and 17th Colorado received a bit of snow. More East of Vail near Rocky Mtn National Park and on the continental divide. Some have said areas received up to 6 inches. In Vail we had a dusting of snow up on the Gore Range in the picture above.

News Story Here with video

Mount Evans, 14,240 feet , 4340 meters

Chris, Cindy and Sarah conquer Mount Evans on the road bikes

Well, we decided to ride the Mount Evans hill climb from Idaho springs at 8700 feet to 14,240 feet on Wednesday. A gain of 6,580 feet or 2000 meters. It was 27 miles up the whole way and then 27 miles down the whole way. Another "14teener" down for Sarah. There are 54 of them in Colorado and we hope to do them all someday. Sarah has done around 16 of them so far. 4 hours up and 1 hour down. Good job! It might have been more difficult to ride the bike up this one than hiking. We were tired afterwards.

Mountain goats up on the road

Parking lot at the top

Panorama web-site

Check out this web-site with Panoramas from famous areas, events, etc. Pretty neat

July 16th Notch Mountain hike

Sarah and I did a good hike up Notch mountain. It was good to get out of town (although only a few miles) to camp out and do a hike. Great weather. Good pics overlooking Holy Cross mountain.

Snow up on the mountain

Flowers up on the mountain

Sarah had fun making a big fire of course.