This morning I decided I would top off the gas tank and go for a drive…
The route was an old favorite; up Deer Creek Canyon to High Grade Road, and then take the back way into Conifer via Pleasant Park. From there I’d get on US 285 for a bit before getting off the highway onto Turkey Creek, which I would follow to the fire station where Deer Creek meets up and then back home.
The route looks a bit like this:
I was hopeful that by leaving the house at 8am that I would miss most of the bicycle people, but no such luck… They love to park a couple hundred cars at the bottom of Deer Creek Canyon Rd, and then ride 3-4 abreast up to Conifer at like 3mph.
Normally this is just annoying, but on the hundred or so blind corners going up and down they become a menace because there is guaranteed to be an oncoming car any time you try to get past them. And they have zero self-preservation instinct that says “the oncoming two-ton vehicle will kill me”, so they do some truly boneheaded things… Like passing on the inside while you’re trying to not run some other bicyclist over…
But if you can ignore the cycle-rats, it’s a beautiful drive.
And one more picture from the fire station at the junction of Turkey Creek and Deer Creek…
All in all it was nice to get out of the house for a bit and get up into the hills – even with the slow moving herds of bicycle-people all over the place.
Listening to "Breeze" by Mitch Murder