Not sure how much higher you can spike the fun meter than what was happening this 4th weekend in Eagle and Summit Counties, but the attempts were made, Especially by thew 750 racers at the Firecracker 50 Mountain Bike Marathon National Championships in Breckenridge yesterday. Of course there were stellar fireworks in both Avon and Eagle, BBQ's, and some high alpine lake hiking up to Nolan, a spot I've seen from above but never actually hiked too....
Eagle's fireworks under cool skies..
Irmiger, Dombrowski, Park, Reeves, Boniface
Aid Station one at the Firecracker, checkpoint Charlie for Squirt Lube
JHK, Shultz, Wiens, Bishop, Swindlehurst
Court Butler rolling at mile marker 49.9
Colorado's State Bloom....
On the way up to Nolan Lake
Nolan in all it's glory
Support Station #1 at the Firecracker hosted by Squirt Lube, too bad I ate it all...
If you have never witnessed or participated in the Firecracker 50, you have never seen the bottom of the cavernous Pain Cave, as so many who raced for a National Championship did yesterday. Kudos to all the warriors who lined it up to suffer like you read about, and who competed. Many were successful, many failed to reach their goals, but they are all winners for lining it up in one of mountain biking's true tests of endurance...well done! 
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