9.17.09 Mtn Bike Road 18

Road 18 its called. On the north side of the mountain base opposite to Mary's Loop. Got there to avoid heat similar to day before. We're a bit tired and only set out to do about 10 miles of terrain. Climb the Prime Cut Trail and kick it down the Kessel Run then back up 18 Road to the top ride along Frontside Trail to Zippity Do Da down. The Zippity was actually crazy in the sense that it ran the ridge up and down with steep drops on both sides...usually our long rides have the steep drops on one side only. It was a little wet here and the trail gets nasty in a hurry because its basically a clay type base. But it looks cool. A brief stop halfway through the ride to replace Chad's break pads. You'll see in one of the pictures that the pad was worn down to the metal plate. For you structural engineers, the plate appears to be 16GA non-composite galv. No WWF required. Skipped the showers and replenished our calories on some healthy Wendy's. As a side note there are more Wendy's out here than Dunkin Donuts in Massachusetts. Headed out west towards Vail for camping but stopped briefly in Glenwood Springs for potty and blogging. Set up shop in the Glenwood Springs Public Library minding our own business when a young man sat down next to us and asked the specs of our computer and then started downloaded pirated music and sucked up all the bandwidth. I left the library in search of better wi-fi and noticed a biker dude surfing copious pornography on my way out. Ahhh Glenwood Springs. Finally made it to Vail where we set up camp on the side of a county road up on a nice fall foliaged Aspen tree road. Lots of Rummy 500 and beers by the fire. Sleep.