However, I made up for it later with a wild ATV ride through a rushing mountain river that had washed away our road earlier that morning.
She is the person up in Juneau, Alaska who's planning to ride 350 miles on a mountain bike through the snow on the same trail that's used by the sled dogs.
The payoff comes after one last lift ride up to the top of the mountain ridge.
The rolling hills around the Irish capital are endowed with an array of easily accessible day trips, from charming coastal villages to breathtaking mountain scenery, all just a car or train ride away.
For more mountain fun, visit the nearby Utah Olympic Park to ride the bobsled and watch Olympians-in-training perform aerial twists into the splash pool.
The resort record for the ride is 59 minutes, set by a professional mountain biker.
Speaking of skiing, JPL is a thirty-minute ride from Marmot Basin, a fantastically beautiful ski mountain with nine lifts, a 3, 000-foot vertical drop and superior snow conditions.
She says things like I went for a longer ride than I expected and then I went up a mountain.
The 11-minute ride is well worth it for the snow-capped mountain views (from both the lift and the restaurant) and the comfort food brunch- and lunch-only menu, which includes a wild Pacific salmon sampler, prepared tartare, smoked and candied, and eggs Benedict on toasted brioche topped with avocado hollandaise.
This is why I have come here: to ride through the remote Tian-Shan (Celestial Mountains) mountain range along ancient routes and through wide high-altitude pastures, known as jailoos, where shepherds have been grazing livestock for centuries.
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Now even snowboarders are experimenting with the contraptions, using kites to shoot up the mountain without benefit of a ski lift and then packing them in their knapsacks for the ride back down.
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