Congress to Prescott! Hardest Climb West of the Appalachians!

GREETINGS WORLD!
   This blog post is coming to you from lovely Prescott Arizona thanks to the Wifi at the Laundry Room! We started out a little bit before 7 a.m. this morning at the Arrowhead Saloon with a good climb right off the bat! Starting climb was around 1,800 ft. for around 7 miles to a small town on top called Yarnell 4,800 ft. elevation. We crushed the climb in just under an hour for each of us, we can tell that we are all getting quite a bit stronger!
   Mid way up the climb I (Joey) was a bit ahead of the other two cyclists when I came across another biker slowly making his way up the ascent. Great guy named Earrol, Airrol, Eerel...(sorry, I have no idea how to spell your name...). He and I chatted up a storm as we climbed together to the top. As we cruised up Matt decided to join us for the chat, which was a grand time with him in the conversation. Just so happens that he is a collector of old bikes and cars, also an E.M.T. for the local fire dept. Just want to throw that shout out to him for slowing me down when he did, the rest of the day was pretty intense!
   After we all made it to the top we had some fun descents into cooler weather with... WHATS THAT! TREES! The sun was no longer boiling our blood, there was actually green grass growing! Dogs and horses galore as well! The middle of the ride was just a sight for sore eyes!
   Ascent number 2... On our route map, it says this is the hardest climbing west of Maryland! We can now see why! We climbed another 2,000 ft. up and also with rolling mountains, fast descents, sharp turns, and beautiful views! It was tough for us, but we all managed to make it to the top of the climb at 6,100 ft! Shortly after on our descent, we strolled into a campground called White Spar in the Prescott National Forest.
   After setting up a bit of camp and some good food in our bellies we hit the town! Our camp neighbor Serena told us of a little festival going on at the courthouse in Prescott and we thought, what a great place to do some awareness and fundraising! We have a lot of shout outs coming up from the good people of Prescott, with a lot of their websites listed below! We told our story to many of the vendors and some of them with their kind hearts gave us a few very helpful items! Pickles, muscle balms/rubs/ pickles, and soap!

Thanks to Jack for the arthritis creme! Mine and Nates knees are feeling much better!
http://www.koalabrands.com/ Check out what he was selling here! good stuff folks!

Thanks to Richard Maranville for his home made muscle ointment. Also to Louis for the Wonderful Lemongrass/Rosemary soap! Nate would also like to mention that his back is feeling so much better after the massage! Check out their website here: http://www.naturalhealinggarden.massagetherapy.com/

 Joey killin it!

 Matt killin it

\ Nate killin it doing the wave

Check out them fisticuffs at 6,100 ft!

Thanks to Carolyn for the Rio Verde Tomatillo Salsa, it was delicious to taste, now we can't wait to devour the rest! Check out her taste of the southwest here: http://www.goldwaters.com/

Once again a big, big thanks to all of those we met at the little festival! I hope you all follow our journey! As of now, we are doing some laundry... so we smell somewhat better. For now, as always, tell your family, tell your friends, and tell your foes!

P.S. If you cannot read some of the posts try highlighting them and you should be able to read them. Sorry for the inconvenience we will be working on this issue on our next post and those to come.

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