riding and receding

 Despite my literal lameness, we did manage to double-session every day, hitting the bike path on our cruiser bikes after our morning road rides and short hikes, respectively.  Since the route is mostly flat, it's an easy pedal and although it was often breezy, it was never too windy to be onerous.  We did two thirteen mile routes (from our house to the end of the bike path up the Colorado River and back) and one seventeen miler (from our house to the Arches National Park entrance to the end of the river bike path and back).  I'm super-glad to have these cruiser bikes - and to use them for more than just riding to the bar.  Although we did that too.

Not only is the water below the sign, 

the silt has covered the posts

(see our May 20 post for comparisons)

We also stopped to check out the river level.  It has definitely come down since our jet boat ride as the peak snow melt has finished, but it still seems high and fast.  And it's still cold too: the adventure jet boat groups we saw were all wearing waterproof anoraks under their life preservers.  Come the August heat, the water will be refreshing but right now, it's hypothermia-inducing.

There's a beach where a concrete boat ramp should be