What are they helicoptering?
Wasn’t totally clear, but there was a guy in an orange vest accepting the baskets the heli was dropping.
I am trying to get my legs ready for a 5 day 300mile bikepacking trip and Saturday was the next “big ride” in that program. I have been doing 45-55 milers for a few weeks and wanted to try to hit 65/6500’ which is the mileage/elevation of most days of my trip. I planned this route, but never did recon on a few roads I wasn’t sure about. One road I went down didn’t cut through so I had to backtrack and add a few miles - no big deal. There was a big climb around mile 40 and I thought it was a standard class 4 road that I could ride most of. It was not and I wound up hiking 3.5 miles of it. I would get on the bike thinking I was clear to ride, and turn a corner to find just…chasms of sadness. So many bugs that you would catch them in your eyes when you blinked. I almost cried. I got through it, and there was a store right there as I came off of the hellish road. So a fill up on water and a Snickers bar and I got home OK. Was proud of myself because even though I got a huge surprise and morale got dangerously low, I finished strong (a big problem of mine since I have trouble eating on the bike) and even felt like I had 10-15 more in me. Sorry for the humble brag but it was a top 5 hardest physical thing I’ve ever done in my life and by far my craziest ride in my 39 years. Not many pics, but felt the need to to share with some folks who would understand. 
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Big Bear? Kinda looks like Skyline trail
it is exactly Skyline in BB
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Dude that’s a big Hell Yeah! from me. It’s been a while since I’ve been on one but I hate that hike-a-bike that fools you into thinking you should throw a leg over and get riding again only to find unrideable stuff around the next corner. And with bugs too? I would not fare well.
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what is that thing at mile 49 ish? that looks steep!
it looks upside downish
A part left out: That weird section was a huge washout/culvert repair thing that i had to climb down like 20’ and then through the water streaming through the non-existent culvert and then climb back up on the other side. I guess the Wahoo couldn’t compute?
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Have you found the trails in Fort Totten park yet? There used to be a small loop that starts with a nice steep drop in by the pin here. In the center of the park is the old fort that had a a couple of like rolling jumps. https://maps.app.goo.gl/y4rmFm3BoX1jMynj9?g_st=ic
No, I bike past the park all the time to get to the new MBT (which as of a year or so ago connects all the way from Union Station to Ft Totten Metro.
Rode bikes around Block Island.
Ate some
and hung out a secluded beach.
Leaving the beach, figured out why it was just us and a naked guy.
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i would have expected the sign to be written in german
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This was basically my experience with La Jolla outside San Diego back in '09, except LSD and cars not bikes.
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Mayne Island overnighter
Need to come ride these roads on an unloaded bike sometime
there’s a japanese garden here too
the bike
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on an overnighter this weekend.Which railroad was that? It looks kind of like the RGS, but that’s a bit of a haul from Denver.
