The next weekend was St Patrick's day weekend and so of course we had an eventful Saturday. The following day, I went with a buddy to go bike shopping. Having gone to a few shops over the course of the week, I had an idea of what I was looking for and upon stumbling on the largest bike sale in Colorado I was able to find a suitable bike for me. It was a 29er mountain bike (2013 Raleigh Talus to be exact) and the following weekend I was able to use it for the first time.
Before I reach my first ride, I'll detail the preceding days of the weekend. Though Robb had just left for Italy, Cale had a friend in town and so the four of us went out on the town Friday night. Saturday Cale, his friend, and I went for a hike near Golden. The weather was quite terrible as you'll see in the following pictures...
Despite the crummy Saturday weather, the next day was much warmer and there was no sight of snow. I took advantage of this decent weather by loading my new bike onto my new car bike rack and heading just Southwest of Denver to Deer Creek Canyon where I had hiked once before. There is a seven mile lead-up to the start of the Colorado Trail (~500 mile hike/bike trail from Denver to Durango) that runs through a pretty cool canyon. I road this seven mile stretch out and back for a fourteen mile total journey where I saw plenty of bighorn sheep and a good sized hydroelectric damn near the end. Though it wasn't any single track or rolling hills for mountain biking, the dirt/gravel road served as a decent introduction for me and my bike.
The next weekend was the weekend of the sweet sixteen of the NCAA tournament and a college friend of mine was in town visiting DU and CU for law school with her mom and uncle. So I met up with them downtown to watch one of the games and catch up before meeting up with my Denver friends for a fun night. The rest of the weekend was pretty lazy with a lot of college basketball watching.
This past weekend we started Friday night off going out on the town with other work friends. The next day we watched the final four games and played some poker at night before getting some sleep in preparation for a long day of snowboarding the next day. Leaving at 6am, we once again beat traffic and were able to get on one of the first lifts up to the top of Keystone. ~28,000 vertical feet later we were ready to head home. The rest of the Sunday consisted of resting in the hot tub and then gearing up for the season premier of Game of Thrones (a show which Robb is obsessed with and the rest of us are kind of guilty by association). Overall, it was a jam-packed weekend which made for a good break from my accounting life, where I'm stuck with month and quarter-end close processes.
Hopefully I'll update this more frequently but no guarantees as life tends to get in the way.
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