Last of February and into March

 Well today, Friday, March 6th., its SNOWING big time, hopefully it won't last long as we have a service appointment at Angletech on Saturday, at 2 PM. We have had some decent weather going into March, until today! Here is the last of February and some March rides.

February 27-A much less WINDY ride on different trails, lane, etc. 

We headed up the Templeton Gap Trail off of the Pikes Peak Greenway to the junction and chose to ride the Austin Bluffs Trail to its end point. A nice day, no jackets needed. We ended up taking a back street to head to a Mavrick station store, but it was the wrong street! We did find a new trailhead off the street to get back on the Templeton Gap Trail! Headed south and west to the frontage path to pick up the T-Gap bike lane and headed to a place for lunch and iced tea. Lots more bike lanes to finish up the ride.

March 2-A ride to the Creekside Coffee House. 

Decided to go to the Creekside Coffee House for tea and the brown bag lunch. Headed out Pikes Peak Greenway to the junction with the Cottonwood Creek Trail up to Creekside Coffee House. Then headed up the CCT to the CCT Park, did a turn around and headed back down. LOL, again it was misc. trails and bike lanes to a few places before we headed back to the apartment. Another nice day for a ride, so far March is doing better than February! 

March 4-Food Run and Lunch Ride. 

We needed to get in a Food Run over to the Walmart Market Place off of the Rock Island Trail. Food and supplies loaded into the cargo trailer and headed back to the apartment. Decided to head to the Mavrick station store on Garden of the Gods for a good Hot Dog. From the apartment to the Pikes Peak Greenway and on to the Sinton Trail heading west. Didn't us the "Tiny Tunnel of Terror", picked up the double wide sidewalk to Garden of the Gods Rd and headed into the Mavrick Station. Decided to head up the double-sided sidewalk up to GoG Rd and 31st. Street and headed back down the other side on the Sinton Trail back to the PPGW and back home!

March 5-Ride to check out the "status" of the newly built Galley Rd. bridge and to see if they re-opened the Homestead South Trail. 

Headed up the Rock Island Trail to the junction with the Homestead South (otherwise known as the Canal Trail), although the top portion has been open, it's been blocked off at the Murry Blvd crossing for more than a year! Sadly, there are 2 under passes that are as usual full of water, mud and rocks so we have to use the normal street crossings at those intersections, :( The Trail Closed sign was pulled off the trail after Murry Blvd, so we headed down to Galley Rd. Galley Rd. is now open, one lane in each direction. The big surprise was the new street crossing light and the now, doublewide sidewalks across the new bridge!! 

From there, we took back streets and sidewalk down to the Starbucks at Hwy 24 and Murry Blvd. Got our iced green tea and ate our brown bag lunch. Headed back the same way up to the Rock Island, then turned east to ride to the RIT ending point at the frontage road just before Powers Blvd. Headed back on the Rock Island Trail, west to Cascade St. and over to the Building Three Coffee Roasters, for iced tea and snack bars outside at the Lincon Center from there got back on the PPGW heading south to Monument Valley Park, then over the I-25 Pedestrian Bridge to the Mesa Greenway to its end, back to the PPGW and home. Someday, they will take the Homestead South Trail and continue it to hook up with the Sand Creek Trail but that's for the future. 

That's it so far for March, we will let you know if the snow melted fast enough for us to make our Saturday March 7th. Service appointment at Angletech of if we got snowed in and have to do our rides on the Recumbent Exercise Bike! HAPPY TRAILS

More February 2026 rides

 The weather gave us a couple of breaks, so we managed to get in a couple more rides. 

Feb 15- Enjoying the SUN, out and about on the recumbents- We headed out to ride the Pikes Peak Greenway, going south, which is mostly DIRT! LOL, ya we don't normally care for dirt riding, but it had been a long time since we rode that way so, it was our destination.

Rode the PPGW down to Circle Drive, the new bridge construction was still going on so we took the detour route and then picked up the new concrete trail along Circle Dr/Lakeview Dr to get on the Harrison Interchange Ped Bridge over to pick up the Cheyenne Road bike lane to the Southgate shopping center and Panera Bread for iced tea and our brown bag lunch. Backstreets, to the Creek Walk Center and short trail to the Tejon St. bike lane back into downtown and back streets over to America the Beautiful Park.

Over the bridges and into Monument Valley Park and the "westside" Pikes Peak Greenway home. A beautiful day for a ride! 

Feb 16- Monday wasn't quite as nice as Sunday so we needed to go do a FOOD RUN to stock the home shelves! Hooked up the cargo trailer and off, heading east on the Rock Island Trail over to the Union Blvd Walmart Marketplace. Shopping done, we headed back home the same way, put away the cold and frozen items and then headed to the Mavrick Station Store for "cheap but quite good", pizza slices for lunch. Hopped on the PPGW and then picked up the Sinton Trail up to Garden of the Gods Road and down to the Mavrick Station Store. We then headed back the way we came and decided to extend the ride a bit and ride down the PPGW to Duck Lake, took a spin around the lake, got back on the PPGW and headed home!

Well, that's all for now, really COLD, WINDY and a bit of SNOW has come back into Southern Colorado, maybe be able to sneak a short, chilly ride on Sunday or Monday, will have to see how much snow we get on Friday afternoon into Saturday morning! HAPPY TRAILS! 

Blessed with quite a few Good Weather Days in February

 Feb. 5- The Practical Side of Recumbent Triking: We needed some new pillows, sheets, etc. so, we headed out for the closest Walmart at Platte Ave and Chelton Rd. Hooked up the Cargo Trailer to the trike and took a more "Bike Lane" route instead of using parts of the trails. After loading up the cargo trailer, we headed to downtown and the Antler's Plaza Starbucks for iced tea to go with our brown bag lunch. Headed over to the Mesa Greenway to its end point, double backed to Fontanero St and the Pikes Peak Greenway Trail and then back to the apartment.

Feb 6- Solo ride and SD card test run- Well Jo had a medical appointment, so I headed out alone. It was a very nice day, but I decided to just stay around close, so I did the Vincent St Bridge Loop ride. I didn't take any photos but, I did enjoy the good weather and found out the SD cards are still functioning as normal, not sure why I had problems with them in the first place. Did the loop and then headed back to the apartment.

Feb 8- A Sunday Ride on a Beautiful Day- Wow what a day, low 60 F temps and lots of sunshine, wish winter was like this all the time! 

Didn't really have a certain destination in mind so we did a lot of wondering around using different trails and bike lanes. What a great day to out and about on a recumbent trike!

Feb 9-Another great day to RIDE, before the upcoming storms- Been fortune it having so many nice days to ride in February! 

Didn't really want to go home but it was getting late and the thought of dinner was on my mind. The storms are supposed to be coming in from the west any day so getting in the rides during this dry spell has made this a decent distance month for being winter!  

Feb 11- A Chilly start but it did warm up, with rain or rain/snow mix coming in on Friday, this was the last chance for a good ride- Decided to go to the Creekside Coffee House for hot tea and the brown bag lunch. Headed up the PPGW to the Cottonwood Creek Trail and up to the CCH. It was a chilly start but warmed up after our lunch so we decided to go all the way to the end point on the CCT. We passed the park, went thru the large tunnel and were on our way. OOPS, we forgot that they are doing creek rerouting and the trail is blocked off! Found a detour and decided to check it out. Single sidewalk but it did take us to a different access point for the trail so we could continue on! 

We headed back down the CCT and then stopped at the Academy Blvd and Woodmen Ave Starbucks for a Think Bar and iced tea break. Rode the CCT to the PPGW and headed south back to the apartment. Although it warmed, we never took off the jackets and vests so it was reminding us that it's still WINTER and can change asap! A nice 22-mile ride before the storms of Friday and Saturday morning, BTW, HAPPY VALENTINES DAY! 

Today is Friday the 13th.!! LOL, no biggie but as Saturday is VALENTINES DAY, we won't be riding. Taking the city bus to our favorite cute little Mexican Restaurant, The Bean Bandit for Valentines Lunch! It's even a bit romantic with its inside Mexican courtyard and fountain! No safe place to lock up the trikes and no windows to keep an eye on them, oh well not every adventure can be done by trike! All the best and HAPPY TRAILS. 😍