RR: 4th Outing

Craig Brossman said:

The Mrs., myself and another married, much younger couple did a ride on the 4th this year. The
traditional Fourth of July ride in these parts is up over Kenebec Pass and back down the Colorado
trail. Some 40+ miles, something like 5K total elevation gain, blah blah blah. Well, the wives
wanted to go so we decided to tone it back a bit.

The ride is only 17 miles, but it was the toughest 17 miles I've ever done. It starts near 11K
feet, climbs to 11.6, drops back a couple of hundred and up over 12.1. Net gain for this shuttle
is -300 feet, but we only dropped below 11K in the last 3 miles.

Some technical sections, many small alpine stream crossings, lots of climbing, no bears or
cougars. Despite the burning in our lungs and sweat on our brow, you just couldn't beat the
scenery.

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P.S. This is my first attempt at posting pics, I have not found pbase easy to use. The other
bigger problem I have is that many of my shots are taken at a resolution larger than is
appropriate for web display, w/o Photoshop or some equivalent, I don't know how to reduce the
picture size and resolution? I would like to always take shots at the max. res., but need a
quick and easy way to throttle them down for the internet. Any suggestions are appreciated.

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Now THATs a ride! Holy freakin' [censored] Craig, those views are HUGE. Incredibly jealous.

FWIW, you pix look perfect to me. That's what's cool about pbase, they automatically create 4 views
of your pictures for you (small, medium, large and original). The user selects what view they like
and pbase remembers that selection and shows them all the pictures in that resolution.

IMO your original is not too large, and if I had a slower connection I'd just view the med or
large version.

It takes a little while to get used to the web interface, but I think pbase rocks.

Gman "new pbase user too"

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Let's go this way, there aren't too many climbs ...

I do that too. I think it's human nature.

"It's all downhill from here! (almost)"

Matt

Now all that well-intended crying wolf could get you strangled, or at least stuck with the tab at
the coffee shop or brewhaus. Me to Craig, "if you really don't know, just shut up!"

Paladin

Craig Brossman said:

The Mrs., myself and another married, much younger couple did a ride on the 4th this year. The
traditional Fourth of July ride in these parts is up over Kenebec Pass and back down the Colorado
trail. Some 40+ miles, something like 5K total elevation gain, blah blah blah. Well, the wives
wanted to go so we decided to tone it back a bit.

The ride is only 17 miles, but it was the toughest 17 miles I've ever done. It starts near 11K
feet, climbs to 11.6, drops back a couple of hundred and up over 12.1. Net gain for this shuttle is
-300 feet, but we only dropped below 11K in the last 3 miles.

Some technical sections, many small alpine stream crossings, lots of climbing, no bears or cougars.
Despite the burning in our lungs and sweat on our brow, you just couldn't beat the scenery.

pbase.comctatmolasOpen ↗

P.S. This is my first attempt at posting pics, I have not found pbase easy to use. The other bigger
problem I have is that many of my shots are taken at a resolution larger than is appropriate
for web display, w/o Photoshop or some equivalent, I don't know how to reduce the picture size
and resolution? I would like to always take shots at the max. res., but need a quick and easy
way to throttle them down for the internet. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Damn fine photos. Absolutely fantastic stuff.

Dave (sulking now..carry on!)

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Craig Brossman said:

After a particularly long technical section near the top, she said she

will

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never do that ride again. The next day she said maybe again next year. Funny how you forget
the bad (read tough) parts so quickly.

:-). I used to have a great ability to forget half the climbs in a route.
It would keep me doing more than I expected to, and amuse my friends no

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Let's go this way, there aren't too many climbs ...

I do that too. I think it's human nature.

"It's all downhill from here! (almost)"

Matt

Gotta watch out for those "negative" downhills! ;-)

Nice pics BTW

TD

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