A Snowy Ride for Views of Mount Evans

Sunday, January 2

A bit warmer today, with temperatures in the low 20s which would "soar" into the low 30s by lunch when I returned home.

I rode Scarlett, my 2014 Ural Patrol, towards the nearby border area neighborhoods between Arapahoe and Delbert Counties. aka the Rocking Horse neighborhood.  These are large homes with sizeable land around them, and yes, with horses out in the pastures.

I rode about quite a bit once there, exploring old photo shoot locations, checking out a couple of unexplored roads, and ended up using previous shoot locations anyways.

The common theme, as alluded to in the title of the post, was posing Scarlett with views of distant Mount Evans in the background.

Mount Evans is one of Colorado's Fourteeners and the closest one to the overcrowded cesspool that is the Metro Denver area.  It is also one of two such Fourteeners which is accessible via car all the way to the top!  Not in snowy weather of course, the road up is closed in late October/November and not plowed open till late March the following year.

I used the zoom capabilities of the Sony HX-80 camera for the following two shots.

As usual, the grip covers and heated grips kept my hands warm while wearing lightweight summer gloves.  I also would remove the gloves, placing them on the port side engine jug/cylinder.  Upon returning to the rig, I'd don the warm feeling gloves over cold fingers.....a nice feeling.

Got back home before lunch with no issues and with roads rapidly starting to have their thin snow cover rapidly melting.  Messy conditions.