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Golden to Highlands Ranch, Colorado. Monday-Thursday, July 15-18, 2024 After more than 3,000 miles, the trip is winding down. The feast is almost over, now comes dessert. Golden is at the doorstep of greater Denver, today is just 30 miles to the first of three sets of friends I’ll be staying with here. One moreContinue reading “Switching gears”

Georgetown to Golden,Colorado, Sunday, July 14, 2024 The day started out so nicely. A 12 mile swoop downhill to meet Lynne Seaborg, Eric‘s older sister, for brunch in yet another outdoor café, this time in Idaho Springs. Lynne is a retired pediatric clinical psychologist who trained at Harvard and Purdue, and practiced for many yearsContinue reading “I thought I was home free”

Dillon to Georgetown, Colorado, Saturday, July 13, 2024. You boomers out there might remember the Truckers/CB radio craze of the 1970s, that added phrases like “Breaker one nine” and “10-4, good buddy” to the cultural lexicon. Much of it was inspired by the CW McCall hit Convoy, later made into a Sam Peckinpah movie, followedContinue reading “Loveland Pass, way up on the Great Divide. Biking on down the other side”

Leadville to Dillon, Colorado. Friday, July 12, 2024 We snickered as we drove through this tiny town in 1977, couldn’t believe they would really name a town that. Today, Climax, Colorado is technically a ghost town, although there is still an active mine there, the largest molybdenum mine in the world. Molybdenum is one ofContinue reading “Climaxing in Colorado”

Leadville, Colorado, Thursday, July 11, 2024. I don’t get why Lance Armstrong didn’t just move to Leadville. You may recall, his blood doping with EPO (erythropoietin) finally caught up to him, and his seven Tour de France victories were invalidated. But erythropoietin is a natural hormone your kidneys make as a response to low bloodContinue reading “Leadville: discrete blood doping for free”

Lost Man Campground to Leadville, Colorado. Wednesday, July 10, 2024. It seems a lot of state highpoints are named after people we’ve otherwise never heard of: Rainier, Borah, Marcy, Wheeler, Harney, Whitney to name a few. But you’d think that the highest mountain in Colorado, the highest of all the Rockies (including the Canadian Rockies)Continue reading “Elbert? What the heck is an Elbert?”

Aspen to Lost Man Campground, Colorado, Tuesday, July 9, 2024  I babied myself today. I knew I was beginning the hardest part of this whole trip, and I didn’t want to take any chances. This statistics are underwhelming, just 5,000 feet of climbing and 42 miles to my next objective, the Mt. Elbert trailhead. IfContinue reading “Partial independence”

Aspen, Colorado Monday, July 8, 2024 Ute City* was the original name for Aspen, as the Ute Nation had a center there when the area was first approached by prospectors in the late 1800s. Shortly thereafter, the Utes were expelled from Colorado as a consequence of the previously mentioned Meeker Massacre (now referred to asContinue reading “Ute City”

Glenwood Springs to Aspen, Colorado. Sunday, July 7, 2024 I love that expression. We used it in our medical training, to express appreciation for our mentors, superb clinicians who taught us so much, we felt like we were standing on the shoulders of giants. Today, it felt like I was doing the same thing. IContinue reading “On the shoulders of giants”

Rifle to Glenwood Springs, Colorado, Saturday, July 6, 2024 I know, the song goes Route 66, but US 66 is largely gone, just bits of it preserved for historical value. US 6, however, is very much alive, and dear to my heart. It starts at the tip of Cape Cod, in Provincetown, where I spentContinue reading “Get your kicks on Route 6”