Single Speed Sunday

Went down to the springs for the single speed sunday ride. Left the house at 6 a.m. to make the 1 hr drive for the start of the ride. Had no idea what was in store, other than there was limited water to resupply and to bring lots of food. Nice mellow 2ish hour climb up rampart range road to start out the day that lead us up to this view of pikes peak. Started out with nine and dropped down to seven pretty quickly.
Then came the trail blazing. Do you see the trail? Me either! Rode around a bit looking for it,
pushed through some high meadows
and ran into this sweet little bit of goodness. The trail was nice and tight and had a bit of steep and loose techie goodness.
Joey pushing through a rock field.
Then came the hike a bike. Straight up the side of a scree field while bushwacking is no joke. A solid hour of carrying our bikes up and up!
Yeah, it was that steep
The high point gave us some killer views and the singletrack up above the scar was killer. Nice and tight ridge top riding that sees next to, if not any bikes other than ours. Good shit! Wasn't out for as long as I thought we would be, a little over prepared food wise. It still turned into 8 hrs on the bike. All in all, it was a good day.

Leaving in the am for the drive to WV and 2 weeks of riding goodness. Here's part of the plan for the tour of WV. It's gonna be rad!