[pixelninja]

Mornin all. I had a short but very enjoyable ride on Sunday. Met up with my main riding buddy Jon for spin at Apex Park. Jon bailed on me about halfway through (wasn't feeling well), so I did a new loop (old loop ridden backwards) and went home. Only rode for about 1.5 hours, but it felt great.

Here's a rock slab section at the bottom. Looks easy right? I've only seen one person clean it in 4 years of riding this trail. Waaaaay harder than it looks.

Here's Jon at the top of the slab, deciding if we should continue up the Apex trail, or climb the Pick N Sledge trail. We opted for Pick N Sledge.

Here's a tricky little swithback that I've cleaned maybe once...if ever

Jon continuing up the climb

Jon cleaning another tricky rock section

At the next intersection. We opted to continue on Pick N Sledge

Nice semi-pano of the top of Pick N Sledge

Looking south down on the Grubstake trail as it snakes back down to Apex trail

Its not all rock and exposure here on the front range. There's about 8-9 of these switchbacks on this section of Grubstake. This is one of the more mellow switchbacks. We usually ride up these, but yesterday I opted to ride down.

Here's another angle of the same switchback

Nice shot coming out of the forest

And back out into full exposure

And that's it for the day. Went back home and spent the rest of the day relaxing with the wife and little girl.

 

[narlus]

cool pics, thanks for that. i rode apex the only time i was out in denver, back in '98 or so. good place!

btw, you are right in that rock part doesn't look all that hard; what's the part which gets people?

 

[pixelninja]

btw, you are right in that rock part doesn't look all that hard; what's the part which gets people?

All the rocks look like they're all about level with each other, right? Wrong. There's at least 3 spots where you have to lunge or wheelie your front tire over the next rock. Plus, they're not nearly as close together as they look. There are several places where your tire can get hung up between rocks. And of course, its steeper than it looks.

I'll make it one of these days, I swear.

 

[jdcamb]

I want to move to Colorado! This place sucks.....