Easter Weekend 2009

We had planned to go to Grand Junction/Fruita Friday and Saturday but the weather looked really crappy in Fruita on Saturday so we decided to stay home and enjoy the nicer weather on the front Range. Friday we decided to hit up Dakota Ridge/Red Rocks/Matthews Winter and give Dan's new Trek Fuel EX9 a good dose of ledgy rocks. It passed with flying colors.


All purdy with XTR!


Friday night we met Cynthia & Dave for dinner at The Med, we ended up waiting over an hour for a table :( Cynthia decided to check Facebook during our wait and saw that Jesper posted up asking where Happy Hour was, Cyn told him it was at The Med. Then our friend Ryan (Megan's hubby) wanted in on the fun so they both met us up there for some food and drinks. Funny thing is once we upped our party up to 6 people instead of 4, we got seated in about 5 minutes.....go figure!

Saturday, we invited ourselves on Cynthia's ride out at Buffalo Creek. The weather forecast didn't look too promising with a 40% chance of rain/snow and wind gusts up to 28mph. Hardy as we are, we decided to chance it.


And to our surprise, the storm clouds chased us from all around but never ever caught us! We were in our riding bubble of blish and nothing could penetrate it!


Our ride was 25+ miles, 3200' of climbing and 3+ hours of riding on super tacky amazingly flowy trails.

Only action picture I took was Dan playing on a tricky step up section towards the end of our ride...legs cashed but we still gave it a go.


Sorry for the lack of pictures but sometimes stopping and taking pictures takes you out of the "moment" and I'm really feeling the flow these days!

Thanks Cyn, Jeny, Ann and of course my honey for a most awesome day playing in the dirt, chasing the singletrack!

Dan and I pigged out on jalapeno burgers and red velvet cake afterwards and I settled into the couch with a nice strong drinky in my hand, an utterly satisfied girl :)

-Kim