400 Hundred and Three

The Washington Gulch area is just another example of how special this place is. There are any number of incredible views and abundant wildflowers in this drainage.

Yes, we did what most people call the second best ride in Crested Butte. What started out as a awesome day for me turned out to be not so great towards the end of the trail.
While trying to keep up with Tom (MX extraordinaire) the hose to my back brake popped off while I was going into a switch back, since I didn't have a back break I was not able to scrub off enough speed going into the corner and exited the trail, straight off into the abyss, well not really the ABYSS, just a bunch of Skunk cabbage, which made for a very soft landing. Everybody thought this was very FUNNY!!!! After the regrouping I was unable to fix my brake...BUMMER!!!!! I had to continue with only a front brake, which is not the safest thing to do( Actually I did a lot of walking)The good thing is that we where almost down. After getting back to the house I went for a soak in the hot tub. After that I had learned that their was an earthquake back home, after hearing that I got on the phone to HoneyBunney to see if she was alright. After hearing her smiling voice I went back into the hot tub to wait for the rest of the gang. In town for lunch we all ate at this Mexican place that had great food...and cheap tooooo! After THAT! Some of us went to one of the local drinking establishments..."The Brick" for a few. Low and behold(is that how you say that) their is this guy wearing a SAN PEDRO hat, SOOOOO I asked...you from PEDRO, turns out he knows Robbie.(Small World, I guess). More in store for tomorrow.

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Troy, a modern day Superman, the first guy to the top, the first guy to the bottom. At 62 the energy this man has is not natural. Time does not seem to affect him. A mountain bike pioneer,he has always been like this, for the last 15 or so years that I have been riding with him he's always been so FAST, the younger kids just can't keep up, it's disheartening for sure.

IRONIC; Breaking Away is on TV right now...