Looks Can Be Deceiving
20-Jun-2010
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Saturday I rode to Bingham Hill Road and from there up Horsetooth. There was an accident and the road was closed just south of Dixon Dam (the one by Hughes Stadium) so I turned around at backtracked to Bellvue. I wanted to log a few more miles before I headed home so I rode five miles up Rist Canyon.
This ride elevation profile I got from my Garmin 305 caught my eye, probably because I’ve never seen Rist and Horsetooth together on the same scale.
The first five miles of Rist Canyon is the easy part (it tops out at 8,000 feet six miles up the road) and it may not look it from this profile, but the Horsetooth section was a harder ride than the Rist section.
Looks Can Be Deceiving
