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Bruce
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Mountain Biking - Special Trails - BETASSO, BOULDER, COLORADO On May 4th, 2014, and again on August 17th, Bruce rode the Betasso Preserve Trail with the Not-Over-The-Hill-Yet mountain biking group. This is a mixed-gender social riding group made up of mostly 45+ aged mountain bikers that ride trails that are not highly technical. Below is a map showing the track, profile and statistics for the Betasso Preserve ride. This track and profile is for the clockwise direction. Reverse it for a counter-clockwise ride. You can right-click on the image below and use the "Save Target As" option to down-load a 1MB 11x17" PDF version of the map. You can also click on the image and zoom up to 200% for a detailed view in a separate window. Right click here to down load the GPX file for this ride. The file may want to save as an XML file, so if it does, change the extension to gpx before you save it. The file is a high-resolution track created on the Delorme PN-60W GPS.
The distance ridden was 7.3 miles and the ride time was about 2 hr. Climbing was 2,034 feet and was spread out across the entire ride. The average grade was 9% and the maximum elevation was 7,883' AMSL. This is the kind of trail on which you will use most of your lower gears. The grades are manageable for the most part and there are few technical sections. This makes the trail is very popular with the women. Glen, Pat, Scott, Dianne & Linda at the beginning of the ride.
Glen and Dianne at the first junction and stop.
Linda coming up the trail near the end of the ride.
Linda showing off her "merit badge".
Betasso is always a good social ride and usually ends with a picnic.
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Version 0.1, August 17, 2014 |
