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My buddy Mauricio and I had climbed this route three full months ago, back in early June, and I think I led the whole thing.
After a few minutes my body semi-remembered the mechanics, though, and it was a real joy to be cruising along the carpet path in the morning sun, headed for my first objective-Pear Buttress on The Book. Ohh, running feels awkward! Part of it was the bike ride, part of it was that I’ve only been running maybe once or twice per week all summer long because of these IT bands. Stashed my bike, changed into my running shoes, packed my rock shoes and chalk bag into my vest, and I was off. The quick final drop into Estes froze my hands at 8am, but by time I’d pedaled the extra couple miles over to the Lumpy Ridge trailhead (exactly 38mi from my doorstep) the sun was fully out and I was plenty warm. Dang, road riding is fun! The This American Life episode in my ear buds about the travails of Afghan refugees in Greece made my achey head and knee seem pretty inconsequential, too. Also, after a summer of pedaling around on my lower geared, 23lb, steel-framed Reeb gravel grinder, it was an absolute joy to zip along on my 16lb carbon rig. I’d biked to Lumpy a couple of times back in June and both occasions were seriously stressful on my IT bands, so it was nice to make the ride up to Estes today with only slight murmurings from my knees. Might as well use that 3am jet lag insomnia for some good.
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I also wanted to test out a bike bag for a little tour I have planned later this fall, so I strapped my La Sportiva Helios SR to my handlebars, stuffed my AK Mountain Vest, TC Pro rock shoes, and chalk bag in my Oveja Negra seat bag, and got a pre-dawn start pedaling through the dark streets. Now that things are starting to cool off a little again, Lumpy is coming back into season, so I decided to head up there yesterday and finally link these three routes together. This was just a fun little link-up of some of the super duper classic moderates at Lumpy-the aforementioned two climbs, plus Pear Buttress on The Book-but is exactly the kind of thing that gets me excited. I’ve only climbed at Lumpy three times previously, but each time involved (along with other routes) a lap of both Melvin’s Wheel on The Bookmark and White Whale on Left Book, so when I was perusing the way, way, embarrassingly far back posts on Kelly Cordes’ website earlier this summer, his reminiscing of the “Triple Schmack Challenge” caught my attention.
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