Day 8: Colorado Springs

Today we made our way down to Colorado Springs and rode Red Rock Canyon. The guys at the bike shop said it was well marked with a lot of fun trails. They told us about a "flow trail" that was just finished up this spring.

We made a plan of what we wanted to do and started out. We started on the left side of the park trying to find Hogback Trail. The signage out there was HORRIBLE and we never did find it, but we did piece something together. We somehow made it over to the right side of the park. This side had good signage and we could actually find the trails we wanted. Someone saw us trying to figure out where we were and helped us out.

Mountain bike trails are set up one of two ways:
1. They are loops, or loops of loops, that allow you to ride one long trail.
2. They have one or two good trails to ride up, and then you have a bunch to choose from for a fun ride down. Much like a ski slope.

What we didn't know is that this park was set up like the second option. We thought it was like option one and couldn't figure out the loop! Once the person helped us out, we got the hang of it. And we did a couple of downhills, but my legs were so tired from climbing up so much that I didn't want to do more than that! We did ride a piece of each trail. It was a lot more fun once we figured it out!

Then we went to Storybook Brewing for some beer. They have a cool logo and some really great beer! Gary even got one to go home!

By then it was time to check in and I really needed a shower! And it was dinner time. We went to Trinity Brewing. I have decided that they are so good I have to hate them! They had so many great beer choices and food options that I couldn't decide! So we are planning on coming back tomorrow to get brunch... Gary got sliders and pumpkin beer, and I had toasted ravioli and ice cream beer. 🤤 I had brought some Michigan Brewery Running Series stickers with us. The bartender put it on the freezer door with the stickers of lots of other breweries! It was pretty cool! 😉

The ice cream beer was made with ice cream from Josh and John's Ice Cream. Of course that inspired us to find it for dessert. At this point, our phones were going off with alarms for flash flooding and severe thunderstorms. We ate our ice cream and headed back to the hotel. It did get pretty bad out there. I just hope that we can ride tomorrow! 🤞Read more