{"id":643,"date":"2009-09-03T22:42:53","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T04:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=643"},"modified":"2009-09-03T22:42:53","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T04:42:53","slug":"bear-to-doctors-82809","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/bear-to-doctors-82809\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear to Doctor&#8217;s 8.28.09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend I had some out of town visitors that I showed some of the trails around here.  I&#8217;ve known Mark since the 5th grade, and he&#8217;s the one who got me into mountain biking.  He had just gotten a Raleigh Grand Teton, circa 1986, which had the uber-cool new feature known as index shifting!  I eventually got a Diamond Back Curaca, which wasn&#8217;t nearly as cool since it lacked index shifting, and we would ride all the trails in our neighborhood in the foothills west of Golden.  It&#8217;s safe to say I learned most of my riding skills from Mark.<\/p>\n<p>These days I ride a bit more than Mark, and he was coming up from Seattle, but the dude can still ride and abide.  Thursday afternoon we did a quick ride to Green Lake.  Not many shots of that other than the lake&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/bear-doctors%208-28-09\/?action=view&#038;current=Summer09bikephotosMW001.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/bear-doctors%208-28-09\/Summer09bikephotosMW001.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I always find it interesting what people take a liking to when visiting my home of Crested Butte.  I liked this shot that Mark took of old town hall and Gothic- pretty much sums up Crested butte for me..<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/bear-doctors%208-28-09\/?action=view&#038;current=Summer09bikephotosMW004.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/bear-doctors%208-28-09\/Summer09bikephotosMW004.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Friday I talked Mark and his friend from the PNW, Kevin, into doing both Bear Creek and Doctor&#8217;s Park.  I decided that this would let them ride the best part of the classic Reno\/Flag\/Bear\/Deadman&#8217;s loop, plus Doctor&#8217;s.  The only problem would be that it&#8217;s almost 40 miles and they had just gotten here from sea level.  We mostly got shots from Bear Creek- here&#8217;s one of me&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/bear-doctors%208-28-09\/?action=view&#038;current=Summer09bikephotosMW016.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/bear-doctors%208-28-09\/Summer09bikephotosMW016.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mark can carve a turn on a bike, no problem:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/bear-doctors%208-28-09\/?action=view&#038;current=beardoctors8-28-09004.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/bear-doctors%208-28-09\/beardoctors8-28-09004.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The climb up doctor&#8217;s was a tough on e for the sea-level dwellers&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/bear-doctors%208-28-09\/?action=view&#038;current=beardoctors8-28-09008.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/bear-doctors%208-28-09\/beardoctors8-28-09008.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;but they were still into it:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/bear-doctors%208-28-09\/?action=view&#038;current=beardoctors8-28-09009.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i244.photobucket.com\/albums\/gg23\/franksblog\/bear-doctors%208-28-09\/beardoctors8-28-09009.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doctor&#8217;s Park was just too good for stopping and photo-taking, so that&#8217;s about it&#8230;  Awesome day, which we followed up by riding 401 the next day with Brittany.  Maybe a few more photos on that later..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend I had some out of town visitors that I showed some of the trails around here. 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