Tori and I started today by fueling up at a Waffle House location that a few of us deadgoats ate at a couple years back. $6.99 goes a long way these days in Tucson.
Once we had enough coffee to feel energetic, we started riding for Mt. Lemmon. It's about an hour to the base from by the university, theb about 2:40 to the top for me at just an average pace, and Tori made it up in about 3:20. Lots of snow, so there were lots of families, mostly Mexican, tobogganing, making snowmen, filling their trucks full of snow, and making snowmen on the roofs, hood, or back windows of their cars for the drive down. Most were pretty well done and had some artistic or creative merit to them.
We had chili, corn bread and pie at the Iron Door at the top, plus hot chocolate and coffee and sat at a table by the fire. Quite nice, I think Tori enjoyed both the climb and the restaurant.
By the time we got home, it amounted to 5.5 hours of saddle time, so we're off to find a good burrito somewhere.
Oh wow, that restaurant is 5 star after that climb. Good times man. Makes me miss the Keekers reading about the Lemmon.
ReplyDeleteWaffles, an epic climb, chili, corn bread and coffee? I think you just experienced a perfect day!
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