April 19, 2015

We made another trip to the cabin from Thursday evening through Sunday and were joined by Rick's sister and brother-in-law Renea and Dawson on Friday evening.  

Rick and I did a 20 mile mountain bike ride on Friday afternoon with temps around 50 degrees and a strong west wind.  We've been riding in 80s and low 90s recently, so it was uncomfortably cold at times.  We rode well and both had some personal best times on segments during the ride.  Renea and Dawson met us at The Western Bar for dinner.  We had moose drools, green chile cheeseburgers with onion rings, and coconut cream pies.  It was delicious as always.

Saturday was also cold and windy, so we decided to skip riding and just do some tourist stuff with our guests.  We did some shopping in town at the usual places and had a wonderful late lunch at The Lodge.  Snowflakes were falling in town when we headed back to the cabin.  Rick and I did a 4 mile hike along some ridge tops in the forest near our subdivision looking for elk and deer antler sheds but were unsuccessful.  At least we got a few hours of exercise and got to see lots of beautiful scenery.

This road is very steep but doesn't look it in the picture.

Good place for a rest after a long climb with both riding and pushing the bike up the mountain.

Area of trail where we saw elk on our last trip.

The bikes, Rick, and the trail.

The view from the highest point in our subdivision by the water tank on Saturday.

Rick found a monument marker while we searched a ridge top for elk and deer antler sheds.  Too bad we couldn't find any sheds.

The wind was blowing strongly, it was cold, and some snow flakes fell during our unsuccessful but scenic and healthy 4 mile hike.

An alligator juniper tree.