Adventures in Biking

I bought a Trek mountain bike last summer. I haven’t been on as many rides as I would like, but I am getting out there a bit. I share with you some pictures from a couple rides. One of the rides was termed the Six Peak Challenge, which I and a handful of coworkers participated in and a cool, drizzly weekend in January. We went into a nearby forest, and biked to the top of the six tallest peaks in immediate area. It was brutal and painful near the end of the nearly 40 mile ride, but all those that set out to do it finished it, and came away with a great sense of accomplishment.

Now, the pictures:

Me, in my new biking gear acquired at Xmas

Blair and I play it cool after the ride up the steep trail leading to Forest Peak.
Before I got a front fender, I became all too familiar with the taste of mud.
Dazed after reaching one of the peaks on the Six Peak Challenge
The Six Peak gang, resting briefly atop Dimple Hill.

Self portrait, Dimple Hill.

Celebration atop what may be McCullough peak.

A wrong turn was made near the summit of one of the peaks, landing us in a thick patch of reprod.