Sometimes Mt. Biking turns more into a mode of just surviving a ride.
It's hard enough to lead a big ride with a host of strong riders on a challenging trail.
Add into that extreme heat, extremely difficult climbing/hike a bike
all are the makings for a slow beaten up Skook.
When you don't have your A-game,
you just find a super slow rythym and hope you don't crash too hard,
puke on the trail,
or get all cranky and forget to have a good time.
Paris Creek via Fortune Creek, Boulder, Boulder N. Spur
20 miles 4000 feet cumulative
Map ride started at SW corner,
large red dots show area where pictures taken in sequence with ride post.
First painful climb up Fortune Creek
affords you great views of the rocky mountain outcrops.
Whenever i ride in this area (and it always seems i do a different loop everytime)
i always run into frogs.
i was gonna catch and stuff this guy in my pocket
then throw him in the lake up top,
but he escaped.
My pal Dfrnt and a couple of riders from the club by the lake.
Towards the Boulder Creek Trail
Finally atop the final climb.
Probably the sharpest edge ridge saddle i've ridden a bike on,
steep steep hike a bike up 400 feet
with the saddle being an axe blade 10 feet,
then down nearly unridable steep switchbacks.
At any rate i was helpless as a baby by this time.
A fatigue crash, heart rate out of control,
taking alot of breaks and even with that never getting a second wind.
A bald eagle could have made a nest on my head by this point.
But even beyond my struggles i did make it thru the ride
and enjoy a moment of silence and solitude along with the marvelous scenery
looking above the Paris Creek drainage.
One more pic for the road,
then it was all about getting to the icy cool goodness of Paris Creek
down by the parking lot, where it was 105 degrees.
It's hard enough to lead a big ride with a host of strong riders on a challenging trail.
Add into that extreme heat, extremely difficult climbing/hike a bike
all are the makings for a slow beaten up Skook.
When you don't have your A-game,
you just find a super slow rythym and hope you don't crash too hard,
puke on the trail,
or get all cranky and forget to have a good time.
Paris Creek via Fortune Creek, Boulder, Boulder N. Spur
20 miles 4000 feet cumulative
Map ride started at SW corner,
large red dots show area where pictures taken in sequence with ride post.
First painful climb up Fortune Creek
affords you great views of the rocky mountain outcrops.
Whenever i ride in this area (and it always seems i do a different loop everytime)
i always run into frogs.
i was gonna catch and stuff this guy in my pocket
then throw him in the lake up top,
but he escaped.
My pal Dfrnt and a couple of riders from the club by the lake.
Towards the Boulder Creek Trail
Finally atop the final climb.
Probably the sharpest edge ridge saddle i've ridden a bike on,
steep steep hike a bike up 400 feet
with the saddle being an axe blade 10 feet,
then down nearly unridable steep switchbacks.
At any rate i was helpless as a baby by this time.
A fatigue crash, heart rate out of control,
taking alot of breaks and even with that never getting a second wind.
A bald eagle could have made a nest on my head by this point.
But even beyond my struggles i did make it thru the ride
and enjoy a moment of silence and solitude along with the marvelous scenery
looking above the Paris Creek drainage.
One more pic for the road,
then it was all about getting to the icy cool goodness of Paris Creek
down by the parking lot, where it was 105 degrees.
neaky: 
