Into Thin Air

Climb Every Mountain Click on pic to enlarge

You can tell by the huge smile that Simone is tickled Velo to be on the very top of Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park. She's standing in front to of the Never Summer range of mountains at 12,183 feet, sporting her new Specialized Dulce from Greenstreet Cycles. Not many people do this ride. It is rated "very difficult" by all the ride experts. One must battle the altitude as well as the RVers and Harleys.

Simone, El Guapo Supreme, her cousin Alex and uncle Joe saddled up early Wednesday from the RMNP entrance. It's a steady thumper from 7500 feet up to 12183. A few grumbles were heard, but she sacked up and went for broke. Another feathered feat in her bonnet now, to go along climbing Long's Peak 14255 at age 10.

Is there a Triple Bypass in her future? You heard it here first on the hush-hush and quite QT.