In the morning we went whitewater rafting in the Royal Gorge on the Arkansas River in Colorado - twas great fun.
In the afternoon we headed off towards Colorado Springs, to ride up Pikes Peak.
This is really amazing, you can only get this in America - the highest mountain around - 14100 feet, and what do you get right at the summit ??? A car park !!!
But that does mean, that there is an amazing part tarmac, part dirt road all the way to the top - starting from around 7000ft, the 19 mile drive took us 25 minutes - and we stopped a few times for photos.
They have a race from bottom to top and the quickest guys complete it in 10 mins!
This is the road up;
and at the top
As usual photos are at flickr
And the GPS track is here
Russ and Phill,cool what you are doing at the moment! We've completed last riding tour it was awesome,lot's of fun!Hope to send you photos soon.Photos are awesome.How many riders are on the trip?Big hello from Kazan and ROAD!Good luck!
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ReplyDeleteI'm glad your last trip went ok.
Do send the photos - they'd be interesting to see.
Glad you are enjoying the blog.
Drop me an email sometime (I don't have your address)
Russ
hi, Russ.My e-mail: nagimov77@yahoo.com. I forgot your e-mail adress
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