Last week I went with my family for a week long adventure trip in Beaver Creek, Colorado. One of the activities we signed up for was downhill mountainbiking, assuming it would be a beginner trail. LOL Well, we ended up coming down 17 miles of mountain with pretty steep hills, hairpin turns, singletracking, etc. What a rush!! I was scared for a while at the beginning and about 5 people crash and burned on the way down. There were bloody legs all around. It was my first time mountain biking -- well, the whole family's -- and so much fun!! I have a road bike.
The only really hard part was one incline of 300ft that almost did us all in as none of us were from higher elevations. I was definitely having a hard time breathing, as I'm from South Carolina!
Colorado is such a beautiful state and the weather was awesome compared to all the humidity we have here in the summer.
Fun, fun! My 14 year old son wants a mountain bike now. He fell once pretty badly, but got right back up and went even faster downhill!
We also were able to horseback ride, zipline, canoe, do archery in the woods aiming at bogus animals and white water raft.