Wow, what an experience! After leaving our campground around 3:00 Mountain Time, we drove that huge RV for about 10 miles of unpaved, un-settled, and just plain dusty road. We were in the grasslands, and it was so dusty! The reason we were headed to theses grasslands was to see some dinosaur tracks in Picketwire Canyon, inside of Comanche Natinoal Grasslands. Well, we left the RV at the top of a smaller dustier (is that a word?!?!) road and proceeded 3 miles. Christine, Gabrielle and Anna riding in the van; and finally picking up Daniel and Ben plus their bikes. Josh and Tom rode the whole 3 miles on that hot, dusty road! We got to the top of the trail that would take us down to the canyon and proceeded down a very steep hill. Yes, it was steep, even for us, who live on a hill to begin with. To give you an idea, the trail sloped down 250 feet in the first quarter mile. Even before we got off that really steep part Ben popped one of his tires and everyone was walking their bikes down around boulders. We decided we weren't really "Mountain Bikers" and proceeded to hike about a mile down into the canyon befroe we realizwed we better head back before it got dark on us. We got back to the RV, packed up and headed out for Canon City Colorado. We got to Starlite Classic Campground around 11 o'clock MT.
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| Where we turned around after about a mile of walking |
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| Picketwire Canyon |
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| Comanche National Grasslands, so picturesque! |
Of course "dustier" is a word; my brother is Dusty, anything he does is "dustyish". Dustier, Dustyish, it is a word on my terms. :)
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Ben if you pop a tire while riding with me, you better have your unicycle skills in order... Also watch out for those pesky snakes, as they are all over out there.
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