The weather pattern seems to be changing a bit so there were actually some chances of afternoon thunderstorms. So we decided to stay a bit lower and do a ride just outside of Salida rather than heading high up to Leadville. We stopped at one of the local shops, Absolute Bikes to both double check howies research as well as check on a couple rides that he could not find much info on. The shop was probably the best stocked shop from a parts point of view that we have seen in all of our travels, including the dumonte tech green lube that we could not find for love or money in buena vista or frisco. they had a sweet display of vintage mtn and road bikes hanging around the shop, although the boys at freeze thaw would be salivating at the potential to make cruizers out of them. Anyways we got confirmation on a few of our decisions and headed out to the rainbow trail from Bear Creek to Methodist Mtn. It was a few miles up a dirt road in the truck then another 2.5 miles and 1000 feet on the bikes till we hit the single track. I belive it was another 6 miles or so along the contour before we hit the turn around point
As you can see from at least the first picture, the weather was turning a bit, we could see it raining down the valley and it had sprinkled on us a bit when we first started the ride. We had he potential for continueing down the trail a bit but since the wind picked up and the reports of the trail conditions were less than optimal we turned around.
Back to the truck we had a nice recovery 16 plus miles in, maybe 2000 fee of climbing on the outside.
Back at camp, I did some laundry and howie used his garlic to full potential for dinner.
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