{"id":1301,"date":"2010-07-21T22:05:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T04:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2010-07-21T22:05:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T04:05:36","slug":"7-15-10-what-was-i-thinking-raggeds-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/7-15-10-what-was-i-thinking-raggeds-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"7.15.10  What Was I Thinking?  (Raggeds Ride)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been riding my bike much this summer.  Frankly, I&#8217;m finding it a bit boring.  But that doesn&#8217;t mean I won&#8217;t keep trying to get the passion back.  So when Pete and Jasper suggested an epic ride on some new trails, I decided to say &#8220;Yes&#8221;.  How hard could it really be to go almost 100 miles all the way around the West Elks on my 7th ride of the year?  Turns out, it&#8217;s pretty hard, thanks to literally hundreds of downed trees on the Raggeds trail.  In fact, we needed a brief period of cell phone coverage on the West side of Kebler pass to get a call out to Brittany, asking her to pick us up as night fell upon us after 13+ hours of pedaling, 10k of vert, and more than 70 miles.  Good fun, in a twisted kind of way.  The pics:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/raggeds%20%207-15-10\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_2861-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/raggeds%20%207-15-10\/IMG_2861-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/raggeds%20%207-15-10\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_2867.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/raggeds%20%207-15-10\/IMG_2867.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more Read more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/raggeds%20%207-15-10\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_2868.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/raggeds%20%207-15-10\/IMG_2868.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/raggeds%20%207-15-10\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_2878.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/raggeds%20%207-15-10\/IMG_2878.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/raggeds%20%207-15-10\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_2879.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/raggeds%20%207-15-10\/IMG_2879.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/raggeds%20%207-15-10\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_2881.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/raggeds%20%207-15-10\/IMG_2881.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/raggeds%20%207-15-10\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_2884.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/raggeds%20%207-15-10\/IMG_2884.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/raggeds%20%207-15-10\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_2885.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/raggeds%20%207-15-10\/IMG_2885.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/raggeds%20%207-15-10\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_2909.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/raggeds%20%207-15-10\/IMG_2909.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/click.php?tt=ml&amp;ti=28985&amp;pw=29053\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/gbi\/10477\/28985\/23393\/29053\/image.jpg\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" style=\"border: 0px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been riding my bike much this summer. Frankly, I&#8217;m finding it a bit boring. But that doesn&#8217;t mean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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-1301","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\/1301","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}