For our first adventure, on Friday the 13th, we set out from our house to ride some of the trails near our house in Centennial. We rode almost 20 miles of mixed paved and gravel trails, with a little bit of road thrown in just to make some connections. It was a nice ride, but it was a little hot. I think our Kansas relatives probably felt the elevation on all those hills, too.
We rode our mountain tandems since we knew we'd be riding some gravel. Grandma and Grandpa were on their Burley Rock 'n Roll, which has wide road tires and is really ideal for this sort of riding. Riding three tandems, I don't think we went unnoticed, but somehow I failed to get any pictures. Perhaps my mom snapped some that she could send us; we could post them here.
On Saturday the 14th, we made the drive out to Mt. Falcon Park in mountains just west of Denver. We came in from the west (upper) side so that we could explore the trails on the wide, flat ridge at the top of the park without having to walk up 1500 ft to get there. I got a few pictures of this one:
We had a really nice picnic lunch at the top of the park. The sun was warm, but there a light breeze to keep us cool, the view from the top, which is not all visible in the picture above, was spectacular.
After lunch, we made the short drive over to Alderfer Three Sisters Park to scramble around on the rocks. That was quite a bit of fun too.
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