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Big Gee in Action
Mineral Belt Trail, Photos from Puerto Rico
Bernie and I skied up the Mt Evans Road. The goal was to get to Mt Goliath, an unremarkable sub peak of Mount Evans. The round trip on the road was about 7 miles of xc skiing. The hike to the summit was maybe a half mile round trip. So this time around the distance was 7.5 miles and around 1,600 vertical feet. He can't join me next weekend but we are talking about the weekend after that. Brainard Lake maybe?
Saturday and Sunday I headed to nearby Squaw Pass for a couple hours of xc skiing each day. It was surprisingly cold but otherwise nice weather. I focused on Old Squaw Pass Road (now a trail). It's very popular and the same trailheads are used to go up Squaw, Papoose, and Chief mountains. Papoose I bushwacked last month. The other two I hiked up last year. I've been all over that small area.
I'm a member of the Denver Adventurous Eaters Club and we had our first event since I joined. It was an offal themed dinner: sea urchin pho and tempura asian tripe, foie gras with brioche and white asparagus, pan fried sweet breads, mustard roasted lamb kidney, braised salsify and syrah oxtail jus. Over 50 of us made it to Opus in Littleton for the event. It was a big success. The photo is a bowl made out of a sea urchin exoskeleton holding the cilantro and other miscellaneous things for the pho. Our event even got a few blurbs. Here is one: The Offal Truth at Opus
The MBT is a 12 mile loop trail through and around Leadville. (View the Map) I learned about it a couple years ago after seeing a pamphlet. During the winter it is groomed for XC skiing so I thought I'd give it a try. The whole thing is over 10,000 ft elevation and there is some uphill work plus a few more miles than the last trail I did but I left early so I had the whole day if I needed it. The Leadville Historic District is chock full of pioneer and mining history. The trail even goes up California Gulch where the Colorado gold rush started. The whole length is peppered with signs telling the story that made convenient little rest breaks. The weather was excellent and I took some good photos: Mineral Belt Trail.
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