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We are just finishing up a trip to Colorado, where we spent most of our time on an Interval exchange into the Grand Lodge on Peak 7 in Breckenridge. I have some friends in Colorado, so it's been great to hang out. We've never been to the Rockies and I guess we didn't know what to expect. But it's been a really great trip. Some of you know that I'm an avid cyclist, so I shipped a road bike here to ride and wound up getting 200 miles in. Heaven for me! A local friend is an avid mountain biker and he was able to lend me a mountain bike and that was pretty fun too. Besides biking, we did tons of eating and drinking and a little hiking. Great anniversary dinner at the Ski Tip Lodge in the Keystone resort, highly recommend.
I biked the Copper Triangle with some friends, an 80 mile ride that goes over three mountain passes, two of which are over 12000 ft of altitude. Killer for me, I train and ride at 1200 ft:
Beautiful views from the bike path in Breck, if you just want to take it easy:
You can drive up to Loveland Pass and do some easyish hiking- easy because you drive most of the way up but anything at 12000 ft is still hard:
We also hiked up to Crystal Lake, which is at 12000 ft. It's just a few mile hike, beautiful:
Here is me trying out the mountain bike, coming down from Boreas Pass:
Dillon Lake is beautiful:
We saw two juvenile big horn sheep, in the lower left in this pic:
And today I rode in the foothills of Denver with a friend, this is us coming up Lookout Mountain:
Great trip, we head home tomorrow via Amtrak's California Zephyr. Thanks to Timeshare Von who gave us heads up about changes to the Amtrak Rewards program, so we got this train trip (sleeper car) booked on points before redemption costs went up.
We are so smitten with Colorado that we are thinking of coming back in Sept 2017 in lieu of our planned trip to Hilton Head. Thinking about Aspen...
I biked the Copper Triangle with some friends, an 80 mile ride that goes over three mountain passes, two of which are over 12000 ft of altitude. Killer for me, I train and ride at 1200 ft:
Beautiful views from the bike path in Breck, if you just want to take it easy:
You can drive up to Loveland Pass and do some easyish hiking- easy because you drive most of the way up but anything at 12000 ft is still hard:
We also hiked up to Crystal Lake, which is at 12000 ft. It's just a few mile hike, beautiful:
Here is me trying out the mountain bike, coming down from Boreas Pass:
Dillon Lake is beautiful:
We saw two juvenile big horn sheep, in the lower left in this pic:
And today I rode in the foothills of Denver with a friend, this is us coming up Lookout Mountain:
Great trip, we head home tomorrow via Amtrak's California Zephyr. Thanks to Timeshare Von who gave us heads up about changes to the Amtrak Rewards program, so we got this train trip (sleeper car) booked on points before redemption costs went up.
We are so smitten with Colorado that we are thinking of coming back in Sept 2017 in lieu of our planned trip to Hilton Head. Thinking about Aspen...