{"id":1262,"date":"2010-07-06T17:58:54","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T23:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2010-07-06T20:35:58","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T02:35:58","slug":"tr-strand-ride-with-kim-3-july-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/tr-strand-ride-with-kim-3-july-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"TR: Strand Ride with Kim (3 July 2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were happy to have Kim in town for some 4th of July fun- biking and <a href=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/tr-treasury-raid-on-the-fourth-of-july\/\">skiing<\/a>.  Since Kim is relatively new to the mountain bike, I took her for a ride on Strand- a relatively easy, but scenic and fun, single track ride.  I&#8217;ll let the pics do the talking \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The lupine are amazing this year.  Whetstone in the distance.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Strand%203July2010%20KimVisits\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_6691lupine_whetstone.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Strand%203July2010%20KimVisits\/IMG_6691lupine_whetstone.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Strand%203July2010%20KimVisits\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_6718kim.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Strand%203July2010%20KimVisits\/IMG_6718kim.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Strand%203July2010%20KimVisits\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_6715kim.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Strand%203July2010%20KimVisits\/IMG_6715kim.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Strand has a few sections that run through a beautiful Aspen forest.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Strand%203July2010%20KimVisits\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_6733kim.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Strand%203July2010%20KimVisits\/IMG_6733kim.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Strand%203July2010%20KimVisits\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_6736kim.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Strand%203July2010%20KimVisits\/IMG_6736kim.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Strand also has some amazing views, like this, with Teocalli behind.  Can you see Kim?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Strand%203July2010%20KimVisits\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_6721kim.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Strand%203July2010%20KimVisits\/IMG_6721kim.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Strand%203July2010%20KimVisits\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_6726kim.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Strand%203July2010%20KimVisits\/IMG_6726kim.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In reaching the top you are rewarded with a magnificent view of Teocalli, with Castle popping out behind.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Strand%203July2010%20KimVisits\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_6739top.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Strand%203July2010%20KimVisits\/IMG_6739top.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the descent is a superb treat \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Strand%203July2010%20KimVisits\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_6744kim.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Strand%203July2010%20KimVisits\/IMG_6744kim.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for a good ride Kim!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/click.php?tt=ml&amp;ti=39237&amp;pw=29053\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/gbi\/10477\/39237\/23393\/29053\/image.jpg\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" style=\"border: 0px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were happy to have Kim in town for some 4th of July fun- biking and skiing. Since Kim is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-crested-butte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1269,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/1269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}