{"id":9508,"date":"2017-06-08T20:32:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T02:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=9508"},"modified":"2017-06-08T20:34:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T02:34:19","slug":"over-the-rainbow-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=9508","title":{"rendered":"Over the Rainbow (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since my days off from the shop are Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, I have quickly formed a tendency to do something a little &#8220;out there&#8221; on Thursdays, despite having a race on Saturday. Last week, it was another Rainbow Trail adventure.<\/p>\n<p>If you recall from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=9486\" target=\"_blank\">a recent post<\/a>, I explored a section of the Rainbow Trail that people generally avoid due to an extended hike-a-bike. After figuring out that I&#8217;d gone the &#8220;wrong&#8221; direction before, I decided to go the other way on this outing.<\/p>\n<p>The skies had been a little threatening most of the morning before I left, but I decided to pack a rain jacket and take my chances anyway. The trails here are super dry now, and any moisture that falls gets soaked up super fast. I headed up county road 110, hitting the Double Rainbow trail along the way. Once I made it to the Rainbow Trail, I started the walk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?attachment_id=9509\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9509\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9509\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1084-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1084\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1084.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1084-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1084-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1084-772x579.jpg 772w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1084-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of spots you can ride, but they are brief.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?attachment_id=9511\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9511\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9511\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1086.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1086\" width=\"576\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1086.jpg 576w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1086-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1086-468x624.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It rained steadily for about half of the hike up. I was prepared, though, and thoroughly enjoyed being at the top of Poncha Mountain at the exact time that the sun re-emerged.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?attachment_id=9514\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9514\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9514\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1089-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1089\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1089.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1089-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1089-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1089-772x579.jpg 772w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1089-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The aspens up there are hardly believable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?attachment_id=9512\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9512\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9512\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1087.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1087\" width=\"576\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1087.jpg 576w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1087-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1087-468x624.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have no pictures from the descent, because I was having too much fun. I will say, though, the view of Mt. Ouray on the way down nearly wrecked me with distraction.<\/p>\n<p>The Route:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/1016899299\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/1016899299<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I bonked a little on the way home and drank the last of Leah&#8217;s almond milk in a recovery shake so I wouldn&#8217;t die all the way before I was able to make real food. A ride that includes two and a half hours of climbing isn&#8217;t my usual &#8220;thursday before a race&#8221; routine, but sometimes I just can&#8217;t help myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since my days off from the shop are Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, I have quickly formed a tendency to do something a little &#8220;out there&#8221; on Thursdays, despite having a race on Saturday. Last week, it was another Rainbow Trail adventure. If you recall from a recent post, I explored a section of the Rainbow&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[16,8,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8Uq-2tm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9508"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9517,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9508\/revisions\/9517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}