Mountain biking and and Bruce’s visit

 Bruce Logan ( over 80 ) is an old professional colleague of mine from Edinburgh days. He was (solo and unsupported) cycling from the US Mexican border up to British Columbia. The trip did not go as planned and we rescued him from Buenavista back to us for recuperation. He spent nearly a week with us and we had a good two day cycle tour with him from Buenavista to Frisco via Fairplay. Ultimately we put him on Amtrak to Seattle. A good decision as he would’ve found the floods in Yellowstone where he was heading troublesome! We could not persuade him though to join us mountain biking, but we did get him and his Man Friday folding touring bike over Divide and down Snowmass Creek ending up in Carbondale for a late breakfast.

                                            On the way from Buenavista to Fairplay

 

Cosypoint trail leading to Airline trail

The restored train engine shed on the old railway line over the Boreas Pass to Breckenridge. Mary and I took it in turns to cycle to the summit

Coming down the other side of the Pass.  This, the old historic water tank for the steam engines

We had spent the night at The Hand Hotel in Fairplay and I dropped Bruce here at the Hoosier Pass summit, meeting him later in Frisco while M and I went over the very rough Boreas Pass

My old TOSV transportation supervisor and friend Johnny Boyd who happened to spot us as we cycled up Hwy 285 out of Buenavista

 

Bruce and I outside our dinner restaraunt in Fairplay