Monarch Crest, Silver Creek Rainbow Trail

Well as you can see from the picture, we have added to our masses. State College Scott is the one sitting down on the right, Ive got my arms folded, Phoenix Scott is in white, and Pooh and Terri are in the matching jerseys (isn't that cute). I've described the ride somewhat before, but big kudos go out to Terri for doing so well on her first ride at altitude having only been riding mountain bikes for less than a year.





Its not apparent from the photos, but off to our left clouds were starting to build and we were getting a little worried about storm potential. We ended up making it across the ridge to Silver Creek which we took down the mountain without even hearing any thunder so we were happy about that. Everyone successfully managed their way down silver creek including the part at the end where the trail is silver creek for a bit. Phoenix Scott was feeling pretty worked over so he opted for the road down from there while the 5 of us headed across Rainbow Trail. No pics as its just too much fun to stop. We felt a few sprinkles and down the mountain Scott actually had to put his rain jacket on for a bit, but no harm no foul. It had actually rained on part of Rainbow before we got to it which knocked down the dust and made things a little more tacky. After 6 miles of Rainbow there was a bailout down to the road, missing the last 3 miles, which honestly aren't nearly as fun as the previous 6 and end with a very technical set of switchbacks, so Terri and I opted for that option leaving 3 to finish up the trail. We all met back down at the truck in Poncha Springs after 35 miles of riding.