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High elevation riding affects your breathing and makes you feel weaker than you normally are.
*** Keep in mind, our rides are not races; they are happy, social events intended to be fun, safe and encouraging for everybody.
Bring your patience and sense of humor; if you’re real good, plan to wait a lot for stragglers; if you’re real slow or just beginning, that’s fine, just come and stretch yourself a little and have fun.
Plan to stop a lot for photos and horsing around. Bring your regular and digital cameras! A common sight on these trails is moose, deer, elk and bear. Depends on how much foot & other traffic have gone before us.
The better riders will stop to re-ride difficult sections; less experienced riders must not hesitate to get off and walk. My motto since the big crash in 2000: "there’s no shame in walking it." If you want to try something tough, but don’t want to risk hurting yourself, recruit a couple of us to spot you. That’s fun for everybody. Don’t be afraid to ask the better riders for technique pointers if you want to
At intersections on the trail, the lead rider waits for the last one to arrive, then we depart as a group. It would be hard to get lost where we're going; We’ll probably ask Jerry to lead, (built-in GPS), or G-Man (bike mounted GPS) and I’ll likely take up the rear to help encourage stragglers.
Ride report follow... happy dance, happy dance....