Mt Sanitas

Elizabeth climbed all the way to the summit of Mt Sanitas today! And she did it the hard way - the steep goat path up from our house and then the east ridge trail. More than 1200 feet of climbing on an exceptionally steep and rocky trail.

More pictures here.

Longs Peak

Rob and I went up to the Keyhole today... Not expecting that much winter.

Got back to Boulder and 80 degrees. Best guess is that with wind chill it was about 5 up there.

More pictures here.

It was fun though...

Buffalo Classic

It feels like summer is winding down... Margaret came back from her 10 day backpacking trip excited about her fitness and wanting to test it more. We made quick arrangements to do the Buffalo Classic bike ride.

It's the 1st time we have done a full century on the tandem - 105 miles actually. Margaret did great - nothing hurt except for some saddle pain. 6:15 hours in the saddle is hard even if you are in pretty good shape. Overall we did pretty well - but it was much more vertical than I expected. Looking at the course map, it ended up being 4308 ft of climbing! Not too much per mile, but it sure adds up.

There were some decent pictures of us from Sundance Images, here, here and here.