COVID19 - School Closure - Day 157 School Reopens - Day 169
Starting a new series called Father Follies... mistakes I make as a father that... by God's grace... isn't overly damaging, but when we look back...will bring barrels of laughter and relieve.
Decided to take both kids biking... but didn't want to redo the Los Gatos Bike Trail. Found the Quicksilver Bike Trail which looked promising. Outdoorsy... 10 mile loop. The only problem is there's an initial grade that's considered "intermediate."
When we got there... and I saw the trail... it was full of rocks and pebbles. I started to have some doubt this will be too challenging. But I willed myself forward. The grade was as steep as those San Francisco hills I've had to climb. I could barely get up there on 1st gear... let alone two kids with 100 lb bikes. So we decided to push our bikes to the apex.... and once we get to the flat part... we can enjoy the ride and scenery. Hill after hill... bend after bend... I keep telling them we're almost at the top.
As we're going up... we see these mountain bikers zip down and smile at us. After about 0.5 mile... what felt like 5 miles... I busted out my phone to re-read the website's description. Only to see that the initial steep climb.... is 3 miles!!!! That's when I waved the white flag and called it quits. Not today... ain't worth it.
Since we made the climb... why not ride our way back down?? On slippery, pebble-ridden paths, with dips and holes. We gave it a try... but I heard too many slipping tires. They don't know the first thing about left hand / right hand braking. And I certainly can't carry two injured kids and 3 bikes back down the hill. Yeah... no. We ended up trudging back down the hill to the van.
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