Video from our ride up Vail Pass and back.

The next stop on our trip is Frisco Colorado. Today we rode from Frisco, through Copper Mountain (10 Mile Canyon Trail) and to the top of Vail pass and back. I think the elevation gain is 1500 feet with the elevation at the top of Vail Pass being 10554 feet. Once back to Frisco we ate lunch at the Moose Jaw. After lunch we took a stroll through Frisco then got back on the bikes and rode to Breckenridge (Blue River Bikeway) and back. Total we rode 44 miles. It was 20 years ago that we first rode these same trails.

Today while driving from Laramie, WY to Frisco, CO we decided to take a detour into Steamboat Springs for lunch. While driving through town we spotted a bike path so after lunch we did an impromptu ride along the entire Yampa Core Trail which follows the Yampa river. This was a 13 mile ride. After the ride we were back on the road to Frisco stopping at Murphy's for dinner in Silverthorne.

Was cleaning up my hard drive and found some video clips from our ride last Fall on the Swamp Rabbit Trail in South Carolina. I guess I never edited and posted these so here it is now.

Yesterday after attending the Bicycle Safety Rodeo, Nova and I went in to the big city and rode about 20 miles on the K96 bike path. 2 of those miles were out and back on the future Redbud rail-to-trail which intersects with the K96 path.
I think I said this the last time we rode the K96 path but it is poorly or not marked at all in the areas around Oliver, Woodlawn and Rock Road making it easy to make a wrong turn.
The Redbud trail is currently being paved in town. I don't know what the plans are for the rest of the trail East out of Wichita to Andover.

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Since Nebraska was a no-go, today along with our Daughter we took a short trip to Hutchinson, KS (aka the Salt City) to ride bikes around town and on the Jim Martinez Sunflower Trail. We stopped at Carl's for lunch. Rode around 12 miles. More on the Jim Martinez Sunflower Trail from our first time riding it here.

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Today we drove an hour and a half to the town of Lindsborg, Kansas. From there we rode about 4.5 miles up to Coronado Heights and back. Lindsborg was settled in the spring of 1869 by a group of Swedish immigrants. Coronado Heights receives its name from the Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, who visited central Kansas in 1541. Supposedly he climbed this hill looking for the Native American community of Quivira, where he was told "trees hung with golden bells and ... pots and pans were beaten gold."
Once back in Lindsborg we rode the 2.5 mile Välkommen Trail which is a paved rail-to-trail. There are several historical signs along this trail. There are plans to extend the trail to Mcpherson which will become the Meadowlark Trail.
In Lindsborg we walked around town and had lunch at Jalisco which was good but they don't serve alcohol.
We rode a total of about 14 miles. I believe the temperature was only in the 50s, not the upper 60s as predicted. Nova got the polka dot jersey on this ride. GPS track one way here.

This ride was part of our Fall 2010 trip.

Passing through Memphis, Tennessee today we decided to stop and ride the Riverwalk that runs along side the Mississippi river. We rode from end to end which takes you over a bridge to Mud Island. On Mud Island we checked out the Mississippi riverwalk which is a scaled down relics of the Mississippi in it's entirety. The ride was about 10 miles total.
GPS track of the ride one way here.
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