well we just packed up camp this morning and we're getting ready to take off again if you
guys haven't watched the day one video i'll put the link up above or down the links below but
check that out that was all a day one from buena vista all the way up to hancock lake here we're
just doing a little bit of a bike packing trip and last night we camped out here at the lake hancock
and uh got rained down a little bit and then after that it got pretty cold last night uh but we uh we
managed to survive so we're getting ready to take off we're gonna go back down hancock pass do the
alpine tunnel head up over tin cup pass drop back down into st elmo and then we'll be back on the
way to uh buena vista so been really nice so far so i'm excited to see what today holds let's go
oh man these are man-eaters use rocks holy cow we definitely need a
lifted 4x4 to get back up in here
so i just came up the uh the gravel chunky jeep road that uh we started way down there in the
valley this thing has been insane especially with all the way from all the camping gear and it's
been a struggle a little bit of hike a bike but we're getting close to the top of uh hancock pass
we gotta head up just a little bit further and then we'll drop down into the alpine tunnel um
and kind of continue on but yeah this this stuff is probably got the gopro effect but it
is extremely steep rocky rooty chunky and uh yeah but man when you get up here i think we're about
11 000 plus feet just beautiful man you're up here with the clouds
you got the beautiful valley down below just can't beat it today is just really nice weather
so
oh man that's rocky so if you look right out here this is what's kind of left of the alpine tunnel
train tracks this train track used to take you up to the top of the mountains up here and used
to go through a tunnel that would drop you into the town of alpine and it's been gone for quite
a while but really cool views up here in a kind of cool history we'll actually be dropping into
the old ghost town of alpine later on so get to check that out we're coming into uh alpine tunnel
so this is the old uh train house up here on alpine tunnel and uh it's just hidden away in the
middle of this little valley i mean literally in the middle of nowhere we are just totally out here
remote there's nothing around at all this is an abandoned old town so you got what used to be this
used to be an old boarding house so when the train would bring people up they could stay over here
we got a couple of small little out buildings down here and then on the back
side this is the actual train station for alpine tunnel so
that's pretty cool if we go up around the corner the actual tunnel that used to take
people through the divide up here is actually kind of uh collapsed so we actually will climb
up over hike a bike over it to get down into a tin cup pass so pretty excited glad we're
here we're kind of like about halfway through today's journey and yeah just a great day so far
oh yeah a little bit of that single track
kind of coming off of the alpine loop there 10 cup in the background
so far we're doing pretty good with all the racks even on this super loose technical stuff
there's a lot of weight on this bike it is loose and chunky and this is
steep i know that gopro effect is making this look probably like nothing but wow
good trip ride a little bit of single track we're kind of heading back down into uh st elmo and uh
once we hit san elmo we'll be back on a little bit of dirt road back onto the road and then into bb
that was chunky
not easy with all the gear makes it more
challenging we just made it down off the downhill section coming down from
the alpine loop and tin cup pass and we're on this final dirt road here got this really cool
mining building that looks like it's about to uh literally fall onto the trail it's kind of crazy
and uh we're gonna make it back down to saint elmo cruise back down into princeton springs
and we got a little bit of an uphill section and then drop back down into bv this trip has been
awesome we've had a ton of terrain out here did a lot of camping had a lot of fun did a
lot of hika bike on this one there was some crazy crazy trails right ed serious hike a bike yeah i
mean it was it was insane i haven't i haven't done that much hike a bike in a long time so
it's a good route but it's definitely one of those ones you want to be in some shape and
i don't know if i was in that shape for this one but uh yeah here we go
i love the aspens this time of year look at that that's awesome
all the greens and yellows canopied by aspen trees that is really cool atypical colorado right there
we just made it down from st elmo we're doing the last little stretch here
in the bv buena vista and uh man it went from really cold up there at like close to 13 000
feet to down here huge change in weather but man it feels so nice out here so got about
four or five more miles to go until we get back to ed's house and then uh wrap things up
we just made it back to buena vista and we are spent that was an amazing two days of
riding extremely hard lots of hike a bike we totally tested those new topeak tetra racks
and uh the mtx trunk bags worked out really well so i want to thank topeak
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