michaelf

what a glorious day weatherwise. I'll try to remember this during the heat of the summer to come. The route does not double back on itself. It just almost touches. A list of the bike trails involved: Clear Creek Tr, Platte River Tr, Sand Creek Tr, Toll Gate Creek Tr, Highline Canal Tr(extreme northern end), Rocky Mtn Arsenal SWA perimeter Tr, Commerce City Tr , Platte River Tr(again), Niver Canal Tr, Ralston Creek Tr, Clear Creek Tr(again)

I think this accidental picture cropping, that komoot uses, is kinda fascinating. No matter if you find this picture interesting or not, the photo becomes something completely different, each time you click yourself through the three arbitrary crop frames, to actually display the whole thing. Life is an accident!

Schrebergarten style gardens in Golden . I always thought collective urban garden plots were very rare here. It's still not quite a "Schrebergarten" because people don't build little miniature homes on these plots. Still - I am told 190 some gardens like this exist in the metro area. I never noticed. This was also the first time i rode on the lower part of a newly opened section of the Clear Creek Canyon Trail. My feeling is, that once finished, this is going to be the most massively popular cycling attraction in Colorado. There will be plenty of opportunities to take pictures of this amazlingly elaborate and beautiful construction later. This was also a gpx experiment. Route was recorded with gpsloggerII app on a pixel6a. The app can use free maps stored on the phone, but is a pain in the butt to set up. The app also stores the resultant gpx file locally and accessibly, without needing online access. So you can analyze the route locally with basecamp for example, especially useful in locations without internet access . Route was then uploaded.

last good day of riding before an early major heat wave. first test pictures with a new Minolta 67x

with an out-and-back to the Cabrini Shrine, where many of the pictures were taken. The VW picture is from Evergreen, and the lone horseman at the roundabout is in Bergen Park. If i wouldn't know better, i'd say it's too warm already.

the first half of the track was reconstructed, because apparently i forgot to turn on the route-recording. The "time-part" in the route-statistics never makes that much sense anyway, Photo locations are mostly around the Meadow Gulch Trail before entering Boulder. - Biking part is partly paved+easy unpaved trail. - Hiking part covers 3.6 miles and the only picture from that is the far view of Denver.

very windy. Summit Ranch Dr is a little known alternative to the (in this part) highest point of the I70 bike path. The option on this ride also involves a short walk through the forest to connect Rainbow Hills Rd and Eagle Chase Ln.

This was really two rides. The first one was cut short because of a broken rear hub. I could still coast, just not pedal. Luckily the hub failed at a relatively high point, and the coast/walk was ~7miles. I was suprised how much quicker coasting and pushing off with one foot can be, compared with a only walking. This is the second time this has happened to me that i can remember. Also luckily - I had a selection of new old spare wheels to choose from at home.