Backyard Biking - A Little Taster

Its been quiet sometime since our last post.  I guess that means we have been having to much fun to sit in front of computers and create blog posts:)  Its amazing how fast the summer months have flown by since our relocation to G-Town.  Most of the summer has been spent rock gripping, its just so hard to do anything else with all the epic rock around here.  We've managed many mountain bike rides within the area, however not enough high alpine rides....and there has already been snow topping higher elevation peaks!  I guess the alpine rides will be on the docket for next season.

GPS Tracks:

• Dedisse Trail, near Evergreen, Colorado
• Bergen Peak Trail, near Evergreen, Colorado
• Centennial Cone Trail, Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado
• Kenosha Pass Trail, near Como, Colorado (18 of 30 miles completed)
• unable to complete Kenosha pass trail, typically ridden as a 30+ mile ride over Georgia pass finishing with a mind blowing brake slamming descent into the town of Breckenridge.  If you don't have willing friends to pick your now sore behind up in breck and drive you back to your car at Kenosha Pass the ride turn into 60 miles with over 8000' vertical gain. 
• Kenosha Pass to Georgia Pass to Breck is regarded by many as one of the best portions of the Colorado Trail for mtn bikers. Next time some butt butter and an earlier start.  Oh ya we wont forget the beer to bribe friends to pick us up in Breck and shuttle us back to the truck:)

 

K grinding it out (Dedisse Trail)

Running from the eye, we later got hammered (Centennial Cone Trail)

Ten Mile/Mosquito Range (Kenosha Pass Trail)

RC - A climbing NAT-U-REL

Ya so it must run in the family.  The Casey's appear to be climbing naturals:), first Kristin and now Ryan Casey (RC), who got the crash course last weekend.


Day 1: Little Eiger wall at Clear Creek Canyon.  Ryan is introduced via a 5.10a crack, followed by a 130' 5.10c with a large roof bulge.  To round out the day Ryan took on a 5.9+ dihedral, completing the cycle regarding classic features. 



Ryan on Headline 5.10a





Day 2:  Tyrolean traverses leading to the highly diverse granite greatness.  The Sport Park at Boulder Canyon is where we found ourselves on Sunday.  Again Ryan crushed!  Several days after our weekend of climbing with Ryan, I hear he has been dreaming of rock climbing and waking up with sweaty hands:) 

Ryan crossing Boulder Creek via a "hand tyro" to The Sport Park

Kristin on the "aerial tyro" to Avalon Wall

Ryno on Chicken Hawk 5.9+



Me on-sighting  Big Dipper 5.11a

Crossing in style:)

Noteworthy Sends:

Big Dipper  5.11a
OS

Eldo - A Few of the "Easy" Classics

Our Golden based adventure pad received its first visitors last week.  Friends from NM (Robin and Eowyn) escaped their drought ridden southwestern state for some good ol CO rock love’n.  The sched for each day included early starts to avoid the midday heat which scorches the majority of EldoradoCanyon’s glorious formations.  Upon completion of the AM’s routes, we would drive back to Golden for some Clear Creek action, taking advantage of numerous afternoon shaded crags.  The third stage of each day led to much anticipated visits to one of CO’s five hundred thousand billion micro breweries, for some post climbing brew ha ha’s.

Breweries visited:

Golden City Brewery (2^nd largest brewery in Golden)

Tommy Knockers Brewery

Avery Brewery       

Guidebook: 

NEW Eldorado Canyon Guidebook is RAD  

Robin on Calypso's 1st pitch

Kristin and I following...Hey Robin where's my protection on red?

K on the 2nd pitch of Breezy

Love It

Robin on West Chimney

K showing up Robin and climbing The Great Zot's 1st pitch finger crack

Belaying Robin on pitch 3 of Swanson's Arete.  In the background is Rewritten's classic 4th pitch

K on the super exposed 3rd pitch of Swanson's Arete

K the money pitch 4 roof on Swanson's

The crew each with our own variation of squinting to avoid the blazing sun, after topping out Lumpe Tower on Redgarden Wall

Ten Sleep Canyon - Reunion on Limestone

The Trips Itinerary 

1. July 4th: last day of Residency with team Deac.  Gonna miss you guys:
2. July 5th AM: Cram all of our belongings into two vehicles and one 5x8 Uhaul trailer.
3. July 5th PM: In route to Ten Sleep Canyon Wyoming for a climbing reunion between  "The Crew Formally from NM" and "The Crew Currently from NM, AZ"
4. July 10th: Completing the journey and move to our new home in Golden, Colorado

The Guidebook:

Ten Sleep Climbing Guide by Aaron Huey -2011

The Climbing:

Ten sleep Canyon is located in the Bighorn Mountains of north-central Wyoming, offering world-class limestone climbing.  Tommy Caldwell, Jonathan Siegrist among other professional climbers found Ten Sleep a more than worthy destination.  Click HERE for a link to Siegrist's blog and entry for Ten Sleep.

The Crew:

Da Crew - Short on Shot Glasses for Suzanna's B-day thus bowls and PBR cans:)

PBR Camp Fire Bomb - WAG Photos

Found in the Little Sleeper town of Ten Sleep Wyoming, about 15 minute drive from the Climbing

Some of the east side crags - including the ARC

The Mondo Beyondo Sector, with Slavery Wall seen at pictures center

Trail Markers - Ten Sleep Style

Helmet :) 

Wendy from Santa Fe on Burning Grandma's Bones 5.11b/c

Full Bloom

Me on Crossbow Chaos Theory 5.11a

Noteworthy Sends:


Burning Grandma's Bones 5.11b/c
FL


Crossbow Chaos Theory 5.11a
OS


I Just Do Eyes 5.11b
OS

We have Arrived!  Golden ROCKS :)