TR - Triple Bypass... the "other" way

A picture essay...

The early-ish start


Climb #1


Flowers


Treeline in sight


Proof positive the first pass is close


Views begin to become expansive


Pass #1!




That's fresh snow over there


Off again... into the Wild Blue Tundra


A little trail maintenance


$hit is GREEN in the mountains


The high point... nearly 5 miles straight down hill from here


Brief stop at a sign


Did I mention it's nearly 5 miles straight down hill?


More crappy flowers


Gee... aspens... we're still quite a long ways from the bottom yet


Looking back from whence we came


Uh oh...


It gets worse... soul-crushing even...


At least the views back are decent


I was too knackered to take any more pictures, but we finished by climbing the final pass & descended back to the car. 30-ish miles and an unknown quantity of climbing... full day was 41 miles back to the condo (and BEER!).

I really like snow.



Besides - that's the Climax mine back there in the background.

Here's another pic my buddy took. He's a jackass.

Serial Midget said:

Epic... didn't know people did that sort of riding anymore.

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It's the only riding I get to do any more.

And I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing.

The Toninator said:

What route is the triple bypass? I rhode the road from Bailey to Fair Play up to Breck. The next day I rode the hike and bike from breck all the way over to copper mountain then over copper mountain on the trail where you were on to some road then down to PBville. Very long day. Once i got on the road to PBville it started monsooning. I was a little tired at the end of the day. Really nice ride though.

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The "real" Triple Bypass is Evergreen->Vail over Squaw, Loveland, and Vail passes.

I don't like road riding... so my triple was Searle, Kokomo, and Ptarmagin passes.