Winter Mountainbiking

My neighbor Bob called last night to ask if I'd go on a ride with him this morning. Since it was supposed to be in the 50s today, I quickly agreed.... (The photo above is from the western side of Kipp's Loop Trail, north of Monument, Colorado near Palmer Lake -- a double-track trail with nice views of the Rampart Range and about 400' of vertical in the 9-mile loop.)



Bob's ulterior motive was to find a new geocache on the trail. His GPS did not fail us:


About 100' up the hill from a frozen pond, the geocache was tucked next to a tree trunk. One of the items Bob picked up was a "Travel Bug" -- an identification tag attached to a "hitchhiker" that Bob will deliver to another geocache: