Skyline Drive

After our whitewater rafting trip we took a drive on this ridge in Canon city called Skyline Drive. You drive right along a ridge. There are a couple of places to get out and take pictures and walk around, so guess what we did!

Dirt Bike Ramps...

We have found a park in town where there is a dirt bike trail for the kids... Needless to say, the kids love it!

Leadville Trail 100 Bike Race...

We got up bright and early to see the start of the Trail 100 bike race... While the air was a bit chilly yet (the sun wasn't even over the mountains yet), it was a neat sight to see the 1600 bikers riding down the road all at once.
This was the first group to go past....and then they kept coming.... and coming for about 10 minutes...
This is a picture of the back of the pack clumped up on their first of many hills... After heading through town and down to the fish hatchery the rest of the race is on dirt trails through the mountains....
It was quite the sight to see and the Zeke said they were going by so fast they looked like they were changing colors...

We also do have work to do here...

While it may look like we are out having a lot of fun (and we are), we also do have "work" to do here...

This week and next week we will be baking 100's of dozens of cookies for the upcoming Leadville Trail 100 bike race and the Trail 100 foot race. These are 100 mile races on bike and foot through the mountains. They call them the "Race Across the sky"
Here we are baking and wrapping the cookies (the individually wrapped cookies are for the bake sale that we hold along with these events. We don't individually wrap all the cookies for the racers.)

After baking the cookies we all pitch in to serve a dinner and fellowship a little!

A new tooth for Noah...

It was December of 2007... Noah was 3 1/2 and the boys were on their way to bed when JJ and Noah bumped heads. The next morning we took Noah to the dentist where they decided that one of his front teeth was too badly damaged to save... They also said that the other one would likely fall out on its own soon and sent us home to watch it. The goal was to keep it in his mouth as long as possible while avoiding infection... In July of 2008 it got looser and looser and darker and darker and it fell out too...

This was 2 1/2 years ago... Today on our train ride, I noticed something that we haven't seen there for a long time... A tooth starting to poke through where there has been nothing for so long! Welcome back to the world of corn on the cob Noah!

Hagerman's Pass Part 2...

The other day we found this great hike, but it was too late to go very far, so today we explored further...We started off looking for Windsor Lake, but we missed the turn off and wound up experiencing a whole different part of the Mt. Massive Wilderness...We were hiking up and discovered a ghost town... There are several buildings like this all along the trail...We kept hiking and found a cute little lake... We were told this one was Opal Lake.
We kept hiking and we found the highest train tunnel built during the "boom days" of mining. We stopped at the opening... There was snow in the opening and about 100 feet into the tunnel you could see a cave in...

We love Leadville....

This is a wall that we believe was once part of the railroad here in Leadville.