Cypress Mountain...done!

  

Angela & I had a fabulous Good Friday ride in the sunshine!! to Whytecliff Park with the plan of heading to the second lookout on Cypress. I rode Precious (she likes sunshine) and she climbed like a dream :) I love her. Just not the saddle. Yet. Anyhow, after whipping by the first lookout thinking "eep! i have never ridden this far up" we climbed up towards the second lookout. Neither of us had any clue as to how many more kms we would have to climb. Angela mentioned something about it "being steeper". Excellent! I arrived at the Cypress Mountain Picnic Area and decided this must be the second lookout. Angela rolled up and declared it was not and that we needed to keep going. I encouraged her to pull over and re-consider as without the PILES OF SNOW it could very well be a lookout. Then...I said we should just keep going! I had not spent the time previous trying to keep up with Coach, so my legs were feeling quite fresh ;) So, off we went. The snowbanks on the side of the road kept getting higher and higher. It was awesome. And steep in bits. I looked down at one point to see my cadence was at 35. Hello! At one point, I could see the chairlifts and black dots shooting down the hill. GTs. We stopped one more time to re-group and then we rode to the downhill area parking lot. I was so stoked! We took the accompanying snaps. Had a snack in the cafeteria. And then began the descent. It was damn cold! The rest of the ride was uneventful and much warmer :)