Castle Rock Road MTB Ride

Tandem MTB Tour

Castle Rock Road

Absaroka Range (near the East Fork of the Wind River)

June 18th, 2011

Hope poses with the two humped pony at the top of the first climb.

Why I have knots in my tail?

Hhmmmm... Is it human?


Kind of.

Met alot folks and family out at my dad's place last weekend for Locke's memorial. It was quite a time... just what she would have wanted. My sister Hope came up from DC, so before things got underway we got up early, saddled up the ol' tandem and went for a haul up the mountain. I needed 3 hrs, so I figured the Castle Rock climb would do - a 30 plus mile/ 3000 plus ft. climb/ ride. Worked out pretty good. The air was cool and the weather held. I'm sure Locke was smilin' down.

Hope rides stoker- the Windriver Mountains across the way in the background.

Going up... don't look down.

The "Devil himself".

2 hrs and 3000 vertical feet after we started, we reached the top of the first climb- Castle Rock in the background. That's all we had time for today- and all the road conditions would allow (snow drifts were still covering the road beyond).

On the way back we dropped into a beautiful draw for some tasty single track.

Yum, yum! Good stuff. Thanks Locke!