While some people were nursing a hangover and sleeping in on July 5th Rachel and I took advantage of a wonderful opportunity provided by Trevor driving to Denver to ride somewhere different.
We drove to Fort Collins bright and early on Saturday morning and left our truck at Christi's uncle's house. We put together our folding tandem and took off riding towards Boulder. Not the direct direction though, we found a much better route!
We started by riding the Fort Collins bike path to the very end of the route, right up to the base of Horsetooth Reservoir. We climbed the hill and headed towards Masonville. It was an amazing ride, lots of hills but nothing too tough. Masonville was beautiful, with the green land, flowers, lakes, rivers, etc.
After Masonville we road downhill for awhile and crossed the road up to Estes Park. We didn't ride up that road long but turned off on a small, quiet road heading over the next set of hills. It was a great road, more cyclists than cars and the view from the top was great. At the top we decided to ride on down to the frontrange so Trevor could have some chance of finding us. We road down towards Berthoud but then took another small road down to Longmont.
By now it was past 11am and it was getting REALLY hot. We were tired, dehydrated (despite having lots to drink and drinking it) and ready for a ride. Trevor and Shannon picked us up at a gass station in Longmont and we were excited to have had such a great ride!
Due to the extreme hilliness of the ride it took us about 4 hours to do 42ish miles. The approximate route we took can be found here.
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