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Biked the last 15 miles to Mount Blue Sky
I started out driving up to Echo Lake and met the rest of the group that started down in Idaho Spring. It was a beautiful day for the Extra mile, Extra adventure club (Stan, Jordan, Chris) to attempt Mount Blue Sky. It was about 70F at 9am, but as we started climbing it got warmer, until we got past the tree line (11,700') then the wind picked up and it got a little chilly. But we slowly pushed the pedals down and summited around noon. Lots of bikers out there on the road. I saw mountain bikes, eBikes, Tri bikes, and classic steel bikes.
The road from Echo park to the summit was still 15 miles and around 3600' climbing.
It was tough, exciting, windy, Stan James said just one more climb, and the ride down was incredibly bumpy because the road is trashed. And the road will be closed to vehicles after labor day of 2024 and they will be doing construction on it until the summer of 2026 when it should reopen to cars.
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