Big Springs Biking

Mark can't rock climb or mountain bike while his wrist heals from his ultimate frisbee accident. He doesn't want to risk displacing  his broken scaphoid. So he runs. In fact he's starting to really like it. He invited Shannon to run with us to the Springs and back. She is major cross country running competition. Although she was sick today she rode up while Mark and Laura ran. I was far behind on my bike pumping those pedals with my thick thighs and beefy calves enjoying the fall eye candy the whole time.

Cell phone photos are the pits, at least from a G2 T-Mobile Android.

Autumn Biking on Cascade Springs South Fork Trail

We have to make an annual mountain bike run on the South Fork Cascade Springs Trail every autumn. We were a little earlier this fall so the maples were amazing, but the aspens hadn't changed. I do favor RED! We found a lot of red  maples on the south facing mountain sides, especially on the drive up to parking at the summit of Alpine Loop.  Once on the trail headed north we didn't see as much autumn color.  Give nature a couple of weeks and the aspens will be glorious gold.  We may have to ride this trail again just to see the aspens.  I was giddy when I saw how the photos of the maples looked  very saturated right out of the camera.

You can see the smoke from the Alpine, UT, fire. It has been burning since June. It's hard to reach and extinguish.