FatBikin' Breck 11Jan15

As the FB post described, I was able to get out on a Borealis for some fatbiking in snow. I rented a rigid Yampa size L from the Gold Run Nordic center in Breck and got a day pass for their trails too. As a senior >60 yrs old the whole think only cost me ~$35. The bike was in stellar condition, a perfect fit; I rode using flats and my Patagonia low hikers - all was warm enough for this outing but I did stuff my shoe deep into snow a couple times when rambling off the harder packed (and narrow) snowshoe trails. It was an awesome sunny day (for which I specifically waited to do this) and I sported a thick softshell and base layer at 18° - this was too much on the way up and insufficient on the way down but especially my fingers were cold using my winter biking gloves (thinish softshell things). Fortunately feet were not too cold though I might prefer being clipped in - dunno. Images here go from start to "top" of decent with the trail map thrown in. I took Gold Run and Peabody Placer from the Nordic Center to the Jumbo Overlook - one time down I took a fast downhill not marked called Outlook Cutoff or something like that... the next time down I took the Flume Trails amongst the houses (the red lines on the map). There are gorgeous multi-million $ places up here near the golf course... mostly with nobody in them. FatBiking the snow is cool and the bike worked well but I biffed into the woods by slipping off the narrow snowshoe trails a couple times - biking in deeper soft snow doesn't work but on packed snow it's the shizzle. A day pass was $15 for me and I'd it was worth it for me. I forgot to turn on Strava but expect the whole deal was ~5 miles and 500 ft from the center to the outlook but I don't really know.