Geoff Van Dyke

I have a confession to make: The first time I rode my bike up Lookout Mountain, I didn’t make it to the top. It was August 2007. I’d recently moved to Denver, and as an avid cyclist, I’d read about the climb up Lookout, which I could access after riding about 15 miles from my home in northwest Denver. But there was a small problem. Or maybe a not-so-small problem. I’d moved to the Mile High City from sea level—and a pancake-flat landscape.

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