shooting the moon

autumn - yeah

a proud mom and her daughters

tracy ran a 10mi race, today. we're all pretty proud of her achievement!

then, she and the girls wandered minnehaha for some photos. here's a photo of all 3 of them, it's just that em was the only one posing with her mom. bel was in the process of taking a picture of them.

minnehaha trickle

chequame-done

1281 overall
78 for ss
3:27 finish time

starting gate 5

ride to boreas pass

this was my ride, today. wow, very cool. right when i was feeling i'd accomplished something, though, a guy rides up and we started chatting about our rides. he's in the process of riding the entire continental divide from banff to mexico, which made my climb seem pretty much like nothing, but still cool to meet him. he's a dutch guy who's taken this summer to do the great divide mountain bike route. anyway, paltry as my accomplishment may be, here's my ride up to the continental divide, it topped out at just under 11,500ft.



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photos

just after i hit the dirt

this looks like there's going to be some cool scenery

a quick rest (didn't know how close i actually was to the top)

phew...

gotta be cool

looking east from the continental divide

looking west from the continental divide

proof! (umm, yep, that's my rental bike)

woah... don't get off the beaten path! apparently they have rednecks here too

here's the path i switched to on my way down

the fence keeping jeeps and ATVs off the singletrack

waiting out the rain at the bottom before heading into town

fog flowing down the mountain

the original photo

desaturated a little

photocopy

colorado brews

the dale's scotch ale is a solid beer. i'm not as well versed in the genre but it has a lot of grain with a light hint of smoke. finishes pretty sweet, so dry is nowhere to be found in the description.

the breckenridge brewing 471 double ipa kills! thick and a whole lotta beer, not as hoppy as i'd expect, but good.

roadtrip to rocky mountain national park (rmnp)

view from the parking lot at the alpine visitor center in rmnp

gazing across what should be a snowfield... all the friggin snow is gone!

well... almost, but that's friggin sad

flying!

after-rainstorm treat

from my camera: how neat is that?

from my phone: how neat is that?

meandering along

meet winston

winston was my trail buddy for the day.

different day, different kind of trail experience

today's activity

first trail run at altitude

extremely short 2.8mi run, today. i didn't feel like bringing water, so i just ran out 15 or so mins and turned around. the whole run was above 9,900ft, so, yeah, my heartrate was zooming even though i was running slowly. this was my first ever trail run at altitude. i might be hooked.

next time, the hydration pack goes with me.

a view and a new brew

deviant dale's. a very nice start to vacation!

looks a little different than in winter

our view of peak 7 from the deck.

not only a black shirt

THE black shirt

wish u were here?

joint outing with refactr and reachlocal mn devs. officeonastick!

the end of the day

in CA this week

 

 trying to see good things

from the hotel window

have i ever told you how much i hate casement windows?

casement windows suck. their hardware is crappy and prone to breakage, which renders them completely useless, they block 1/2 the breeze if you only have them open a little bit, oh and did i mention this? they break a lot. oh, yeah, i did mention that.

ever since i was a kid, i've noticed that perfectly good homes that have casement windows, usually had 1 or 2 windows that were broken. no, not the glass but broken and unusable. i knew then, i never wanted them in my house. that was for sure...

then, we built a home. i never wanted them in my house but didn't put up a fight when our builder said, "that's what I use." there were enough other crappy things going on while we built the house, and i let this issue slide. anyway, in our 6 years, here, I've had to replace 1 crank and 2 latches. the latches are crappy construction and are prone to breakage, i foresee more problems with this.

this latest latch, pictured here, was broken while it was in the locked position. as such, i had no way to get at any of the fasteners to take it apart as they are all neatly hidden. well, thank god for dremel tools. i had to hack through the case of the latch and expose the mechanism that moves the locking bar in the frame. i was able to get a screwdriver in there and whack it with a mallet until the latch moved the bar to the unlocked position. phew, finally. i have the latch out and, now, i just need to order a replacement part before winter. sure... it's unlocked but it's also a 2nd story window on a 2 story house over a look-out basement. if someone gets up there, they were getting in my house no matter what.

woozy

best bottle opener ever

thanks surly!

one for jared

auroch's horn

wow, that's some crazy carbonation! i could really sit and watch this glass for a while. btw, don't grab one of these when you're thirsty. it's a 10% sipper.