Easy spin down the bike path

Well that is what it was supposed to be.  Kind of hard to do that with all the trails hidden in the mountains calling your name.  So all of us rolled out of the condo, ripped down the hill we are staying on, and I mean ripped at like 40 mph on knobbies for the 4 miles to town. We then hit up the bike pat hbetween Avon and Vail.  It was nice to just roll along and spin the legs.  Once into Vail the decision was made to head up to this overlook that followed the Wednesday night race hillclimb.  After 20 minutes of climbing we came to the top and we had a great look of where we came from:

After the 20 minutes of climbing we figured that there had to be a trail to cut us accross to the condo since we were at the same elevation.  We asked a local and got the scoop!  So we all saddled up and headed even fruther up the hill, another 20 minutes up and we found the trail.  It was awesome, this nice flowing trail that had great burms and every so often popped you out into these alpine meadows.  We pushed on, then pushed on, then pushed on....... We have to be there?  I only brought one water bottle as well as everyone else in the group minus Spencer and Ryan who ended up having to share their 2nd bottles with us since this trip was their idea anyway.  At about 3 hrs into the trip we hit this hike a bike section, the section that the local said that if you get to this point you made a wrong turn!  Suck!  Well we hicked it, and hicked it for 20 minutes up these steep, rocky sections till we finally found the road that we were looking for. when we came out onto the road the trail was posted from the other direction:

Needless to say we were all pretty tired by the time we weere done with our trip that went from a ride down the bike path and turned into a 4 hr over the mountain trip.  We then decided a good dinner was in order and at the end I think Lisa can explain the way we all felt:

 Not sure what today has in store, but looking forward to another good adventure!!