Nature study: Pike's Peak with Quickbeam (Deacon Patrick's Quickbeam)

[Patrick Moore]

Just stumbled across this picture amongst my jpegs.

Back in 2015 I was visiting my sister and family in the mountains somewhere vaguely North and West of Florissant, CO while waiting for my daughter to get done with summer camp, already,  somewhere around Fort Collins -- I forget the arrangements, but IIRC I drove her to Co Springs, dropped her off with the Orthodox Youth Summer camp gang, then drove to Florrisant while camp gang headed to Ft Collins ... I forget how it worked but that's what happened.

In any event I had arranged to meet Patrick at some vast scenic open space that I think was about the latitude and longitude of Florissant, scores of square miles of rolling dirt roads around a vast reservoir or man-made lake -- does anyone know it?

We had a very nice ride during which some demon in my BB7s, hitherto meekly well-adjusted and quiet, kept whisp-whisp-whisping and occasionaly screeching -- early injuries had made Patrick very sensitive to such noises.

We had a good ride, tho' as a flatlander from 5K feet I struggled to keep up, and my flatland bosque bike handling skills were inadequate to some of the more technical and rocky sections of the lake's circumferential trail, resulting in a tumble that had me, at least to my panicked imagination, pretty darned close to falling into the lake 100 feet below.

I rode my ~2010 Fargo with 29" tires. I was young and strong -- I had recently turned 60 -- and had great fun grunting my way up the very steep and winding dirt roads on approach to my sister's house at 9K feet with a bottom gear of 29" -- 46-36-24 X 14-24 7 speed, IIRC.

Good times.

Patrick "now all I have are memories" Moore

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Was that Rampart Reservoir?

I've gone up there from the AF Academy. On the map it looks like a pretty nice destination coming from Florissant, about 40 miles drive to a good start point. I may have even queried Deacon Patrick about that soon after your visit.

Andy Cheatham

Pittsburgh

[Patrick Moore]

That’s the name. Lovely area.

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