Navigating Lake Dillon 20Jul14

After dropping the kid's hikers in Breck at 2AM (he bagged 3 Mosquito 14ers today plus the nearby 13er) and after being stopped in Breck @ 2:22AM and after sleeping a solid 5 hours, I awoke to head to Dillon to fix sailboat rigging. There was a nice breeze though so I headed out under all original Doyle sails single-handed and touched both the Blue and Snake arms of the lake.

I got back to the car at 2pm and prepped myself and the new Xbike for circumnavigation of the lake. The Wilier-based bike was awesome (went counter-clockwise) but the chain jumped off 2x on the Swan Mtn climb, allowing some roadie to smoke me (but he did it while complimenting "cool bike"). I fixed it and climbed fine while hand-adjusting my derailuers and descended great to Keystone. The bummer was though that the chain broke 2x on the spin from KS back to Dillon Marina (field repair was crap I guess). Porting parts from another bike is also sometimes an issue - gotta at least replace the link.

At least I was near the end. Colorado is so cool - Italy maybe a smidge less. ;)