Day 4 coexisting with the Goldsmiths. Three days of riding some amazing trails with many more to come I'm sure. Thursday I went solo just kind of exploring, having no idea how my lungs would do up here but I was pleasantly surprised. After the long ride I attacked one of the projects on my list that has been growing daily via the Goldsmith's requests. This particular project involved cutting up some deadfall trees that fell below their house. Factoring in the slope of their "front yard" and having just finished that ride, my legs were screaming, but the manual labor was enjoyed. I then split some of the wood to round out the "man work" for the day. Next day I worked with Drew up at one of his projects, at the business end of a shovel and pick-axe. The coush desk job I've been working hasn't done much for my landscaping skills but I powered through. He's putting together a pretty cool water feature project up on Peak 8 at the resort. Drew then showed me around to some other bike trails for a couple of hours, continuing to kick my ass for the day. About 45 minutes from the end of our ride, Drew had already started talking about food so by the time we showered up we were both looking for grub in a serious way. Cope's daycare had beach-day on Thursday and at this point he really wanted a hula-hoop. As we were famished, there was obviously no time to go purchase him one, so Drew quickly fashioned him one out of irrigation pipe and duct tape before we went to town to find some grub. This hoop accompanied us for the rest of the evening.
Cope was the gold mining boss on the beach, whilst Drew and I were the miners.
Below, Heather is super excited to have little brother in CO to play with!!
I had big aspirations for today's bike ride but those got squashed when I found myself lost a couple of times, going up hill of course, and also due to the hail/thunderstorms when I was up near Boreas Pass. That was a chilly ride back down.
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