It’s too bad the smell of fresh mountain air, cleaned by a recent rain/snowstorm, can’t be captured and transmitted digitally.
Archive for the ‘Cycling’ Category
24 Minutes By Bicycle From Our Front Door
Thursday, April 5th, 2012My Colorado Rides
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012Below is a kernel-density map showing where and how often I’ve ridden my bike around Boulder in the last year and a half. I’ve posted things like this before for my rides in California. The color map (the legend is in the bottom-left corner) indicates that anywhere there’s a green dot, I’ve cycled through there at most a few times, and anything between blue and purple are my usual routes. There are a few red points mainly centered around where I live, which corresponds to places I’ve been through a few hundreds of times.
Looking at the map, I’m a bit surprised at the amount of exploring I’ve done out in the plains. I didn’t realize I had done that much out there. I also want to note that most of the dead-end segments are due to geography – the roads end where the segments do.
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This map, of course, was built using this tool I wrote quite some time ago. If you check it out, please don’t judge me too harshly, I was just learning Python when I wrote it!
Fall Colors
Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
The view from the Peak to Peak highway. You can click on the image to find the full-sized version, and I highly recommend you do!
Fall has hit the Front Range, and the Aspen trees are showing it. I took these photos on my bike ride today, and I could have taken dozens more, but I would have never made it back home! In fact, I did take a few more, here and here. I wasn’t the only one out there admiring the fall foliage – traffic was about as busy as I’ve ever seen it, and I saw many people pulled off to the sides of the roads taking pictures of the trees and views.
Since most of you cannot be like all the people I saw today and admire the views in person, here are some of the more spectacular views I felt were worth stopping for and sharing.
Riverside Drive past Raymond. This is one of my favorite roads in this area. It takes 2 hours to get to, and it's over 7500 feet in elevation, but it looks like this the whole way.
A panorama of Riverside Drive between Riverside and Raymond. Happily, even today the road had almost no traffic. Again, you should look at the full-sized version!
A Curtain of Rain
Sunday, September 18th, 2011
Heading west on my ride yesterday I saw this curtain of rain falling in the distance. As it happened, I was riding west and I did get rained on by this front a few minutes after taking this picture. It wasn’t too bad, just enough to get my legs dirty from spray off my front wheel, mostly.
Angry Clouds
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
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Seen today from Betasso Preserve on my bike ride. There was no rain or visible lightning, but there was some wind and thunder.
