This year's route was tough in that the climbing was steeper, but it also had more variables. Whereas the paved road is more gradual but long with little change. Pros and Cons for both. The back side of Pattee is a long and fast down hill on a gravel road. I would estimate we hit speeds between 30 and 40mph on the descent. Then we followed the Kim Williams trail back into Missoula. This trail runs along the Clark Fork River all the way through town. It put us right back at the Parks and Rec, where we had departed together 3 hours before.
While I don't have any pictures from the ride, I do have some stellar shots from later in the night. After biking, we all headed over to Bayern Brewing for some good German beer and life size chess on the back patio. After which, a crew of us now including Cassy and Ryan enjoyed burgers and a pitcher at the Missoula Club downtown. Then, we rendezvoused with more friends at Lake Missoula Cellars, a winery on the western end of town for a wine release party.
A good friend of ours gave us all personal tours and our own glasses for a generous sample session of all the wine they have to offer. Really good wine, this place hopefully will see the business it deserves. Hopefully I'll get to catch Tom Catmull playing there sometime again. Lucky for me they had his music on the speakers when we arrived. Quite a moment.
Not wanting to go home, we then met at Ryan's house. This is where things got crazy fun. From roughly 11PM until well after 1AM, we played 2 on 2 street hockey out front. Using tires on our trucks as goals, Cassy and I took on Scott and Ryan with Tischer offering the occasional offensive help. What can I say? Total domination by Cassy and I, regardless of how skilled these two cats look in the picture. Only one car came the whole time, and all they did was take one of our balls that had made its way down the block. I don't even remember calling "game off!"
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