HispanicSlammer

Juniper Pass I took a day off from work and also from my bicycle training to take out the Veefalo one last time before the weather turns ugly, supposed to snow the rest of the week and possibly start sticking to the ground along the Colorado Front Range. I took a leisurely pace up hwy 105 toward Morrison and got reacquainted with the bike since its been over a month since I took any sort of twisties on it at all, hwy 105 is a scenic ride along the front range between Denver and Colorado Springs, its mostly easy fast sweepers and lite traffic so its a favorite road of mine when going north. Then I have to negotiate a bit of traffic near Highlands ranch and up hwy 470 into the mountains. I decided to take the Morrison Exit and try either Lookout Mountain or head up Golden Gate Canyon - this time it was Lookout Mountain, I was sort of making it up on the fly as I went along. Lookout Mountain is my old bicycling haunt from my days while I was working at Coors, its a killer ride and all uphill - I don't think I could do it today If I had to, not quite there yet! I saw a whole bunch of riders doing it though and wished I was in shape enough to be there doing it as well. 30 more lbs and I will be able to do it! On this day I would do it on the Veefalo instead. I took a video from the gateway to the top at the Lookout Mountain State Park, getting past riders, the guy in the green jacket actually pretty much astounded me with how far he had gotten in the short time it took me to set up my camera, some 3 miles at least and up to the gateway from the turn off at hwy 6! Amazing I thought. I took the first two turns slow then got more comfortable as I went up further, till I was doing well, I made some gearing mistakes and took the tight 15mph marked hairpins in the wrong gear so I lugged it a bit on one or two. Still enjoyed it though and then got off at the top and hiked over a rock outcropping for an overview of the road for the pictures below. Lookout Mountain - Golden Colorado Zoomed in Lookout Mountain Park top of the mountain From there I headed up interstate 70 to Idaho Springs for a beer at the Tommy-knockers brewery, I was the only customer in the joint - slow day for them so they treated me like a king! I got a nice tour of the place sort of impromptu, they made me a nice Pastrami sandwich on rye and with the brown ale it was fantastic. I must say the beer is much better there than in the bottles - its always good at the brewery. I am glad I stopped Tommy-knockers Brewpub Idaho Springs Idaho Springs Colorado Mashtuns and fermenters Rows of fermenters I finished my lunch and since the road to Mount Evans is right there I headed up Squaw pass hoping to get in some nice pictures I wasn't expecting what I found, ICE IN ALL THE SHADY PARTS Icy patches on Squaw Pass definitely taking it easy on that road There were some section where the ice covered the whole road for 300 yards or so I had to roll through it with my legs out to help keep the bike from sliding and falling over, I took it real slow. A Ford pickup was right behind me so I pulled over to let him pass but the guy was going slower then even I was so I pressed on - in places where I could see I just cut over to the oncoming lane and out of the ice where the sun was shining on the road more, but some places there was not alternative so I just had to go slow, good thing it wasn't slick but rather they tossed some gravel over the worst parts so I had some traction! I did stop for pictures in all the best spots Echo Lake at Mount Evans showing off my new plate Elephant Butte Park and Denver Close up Veefalo on Squaw Pass Juniper Pass Juniper Pass Mount Evans My route A is home B is Tommy-knockers lookoutmtn_hd.mp4

I have the option to display a map, a google map, but it also includes some serious hoop jumping and constant updating api and developer tools. I just dont care to do all that extra work, its a pain in the ass and frankly does everyone on vfrd want that feature? Its a bit intrusive showing map coordinates where photos are taken, I want to maintain some privacy for people not aware they have geo data attached to thier phone or camera. I do not want to share member data with google to be honest. I give people the option to log in with google or facebook but thats up to the user, this is completely different it allows google to search the database...nope.

Invisionboard sent out a notice that there was a patch, and a new version for upgrade to address some security issues. So I installed it like a good admin, and of course it broke the website, the java scripts all stopped working and it broke my custom skin. So i at least got it working again, but my skin is still in need of fixing. I have to reinstall that from scratch. Nothing goes smoothly with this place much anymore...I reinstalled the forum from a fresh download and not it seems to be working like its supposed to but i still have to reinstall the skin again and make some new background pics oh well, I will find some good ones in the gallery and start over, yall post some really great pics in the gallery I have plenty to chose from! I just have no more time to work on it today I have to actually go do my real job now.