Night was pretty awful in regards to sleep. Ashley and I did
not sleep the best for whatever reason. I’m scratching it up to the altitude.
We rolled out around 7am and hopped in the shower to get the day started. I
looked up some things to do and there was a state park just a mile away called
Cucumber Gulch. We figured a little bit of hiking and looking around would be
best as it was calling for rain around 1pm today.
Put some grub in our bellies and we were off. The park had a
gondola that took you up to the park. It also went up much further to an
adventure park and to the top of the ski resort. We went into the gondola
office and they had an offer that included the ride and a lunch atop of the
mountain at a restaurant called “Vista House”. Rode the gondola and it was just
beautiful. True beauty wasn’t realized until we got to the top.
When we got off the lift we noticed there was another house
far above us and it looked like there was another lift that we could use. I
asked the park attendant who stood by the lift we just got off of how we could
get up there – the very top. His response was – WALK! The house was at least
another 1,500 feet straight up. Ashley looked at me and said, “You want to walk
it?” The only response that I had was “Sure”. However, my mind was telling me,
are you fricking crazy?
And so the climbing began. I can’t tell you how many times I
stopped on the way up. It was a stupid steep grade and something that normal
people would not attempt. We however are not normal. It took about an hour to
get to the top and the view was STUNNING! We were actually up at the height
where there was still some snow. I must have taken 100+ pictures. After about
15-20 at the top we ventured back down. Although the walk down was a bit
quicker, it seemed just as hard as the grade. Talk about a quad-killer.
Now that the exercise was done, we went for our lunch at
Vista House. Both of us got a BreckFast Club. Let’s just say they totally hit
the spot. After some grub and quite a bit of rest time, we made it back down the
gondola and stopped at one of the other stations before the bottom. The stop
was at Cucumber Glutch, a state park, a protected nature area that had beavers
and plenty of fowl. Looked around a bit and then made our way back to the car.
Since we didn’t hear back from the bike shop yet, we headed to the condo.
A little down time, some shut eye for about 30 minutes and
we were off to the bike shop. We grabbed all our bike gear and went to pick up
our bikes. They had assembled our ponies and we were ready to see how we would
do here in the elevation. We chose an easy ride. The route was leaving downtown
Breckenridge and followed I-70 all the way to Frisco, which was 10 miles away. The
path we rode was a beautifully paved path with a very slight grade. During the
ride both of us found things that we need to change on the bikes and shoes. We
will tweak those over the upcoming days. Glad we did the ride, but 20 miles
later I was happy the ride was over. 
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