The last couple of weeks has flown by, with yard work causing me more pain than all my other exercise types put together. The weather has been pretty hit and miss, too, with hot afternoons, thunderstorms, and tornado warnings. So it was great to get out for an MTB ride yesterday and blow off the cobwebs - especially since it's now less than three weeks to the Jasper-Banff ride.
The Elbow Loop is a fantastic circuit. It's fairly long (44 km) and has a height gain of about 400 m over Tombstone Pass, but if you ride it anti-clockwise then there are no big hills to climb, and you get to ride the single track section downhill. Riding the other way means you have a continuous climb of several km approaching Tombstone Pass, and then a horrendous uphill to the summit. The views into the Front Ranges are awesome and for large sections of the trip you're unlikely to see many people. I rode this one with Ian Stewart, a friend from Northern Ireland, on his first ride this year - good riding, Ian! More pictures
here.
The last couple of weeks has flown by, with yard work causing me more pain than all my other exercise types put together. The weather has been pretty hit and miss, too, with hot afternoons, thunderstorms, and tornado warnings. So it was great to get out for an MTB ride yesterday and blow off the cobwebs - especially since it's now less than three weeks to the Jasper-Banff ride.
The Elbow Loop is a fantastic circuit. It's fairly long (44 km) and has a height gain of about 400 m over Tombstone Pass, but if you ride it anti-clockwise then there are no big hills to climb, and you get to ride the single track section downhill. Riding the other way means you have a continuous climb of several km approaching Tombstone Pass, and then a horrendous uphill to the summit. The views into the Front Ranges are awesome and for large sections of the trip you're unlikely to see many people. I rode this one with Ian Stewart, a friend from Northern Ireland, on his first ride this year - good riding, Ian! More pictures here.
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