A great 33 mile ride near Castle Rock

After a fun morn­ing that start­ed with Eric equip­ping him­self with some nice snow board­ing equip­ment at a great sale in a local shop we cruised through the near­by REI then had iden­ti­cal and deli­cious chick­en hash omlettes:

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Then it was a dri­ve back home and onto the bikes for anoth­er great ride. We rode down to, through, and beyond the town of Cas­tle Rock. Here I am along the nice bike­way with The Cas­tle Rock in the distance:

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We head­ed west and climbed over a hill before descend­ing into a beau­ti­ful valley.

Here’s Eric in a tuck zoom­ing by me:

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A stop fur­ther along for a few bison. Here’s two shots of the same one.
In the left image he’s stand­ing right over my top tube 🙂

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Four shots of a nice gar­den and seren­i­ty set­ting where we stopped for water.

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Yeah, the crest of the last hill!

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And Eric using the advan­tage of his 29 inch­er to leave me behind and walk­ing my bike down this grassy hill with­in the last mile from home.

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A great ride and day. We arrived home to find Ker­rie already there with the boys arriv­ing a lit­tle lat­er. Ker­rie and Eliot went off to the school car­ni­val while Hen­ry, Eric, and I had a nice din­ner and inter­est­ing chat.