Giro de Bri #2 - 2017 Lots of water running and the reservoirs are as full as I have ever seen them. I saw an eagle with its wings spread, soaking up the morning sun from the top of a pole on our way up in the morning. I think it was a juvenile, but it had a very impressive wingspan nonetheless. I've never seen anything like that before; looked like the back of an older quarter! Pete joined me, and Ally also did for the most part to the extent she could hang in there; her surgery is in about 2 weeks. The pace was slow over the initial junk miles, and we had a lot of stopped time for Ally to recover as we went along. Finally, I pushed on for the second half of the climb to Crystal Lake and waited for them there. I bombed the descent and had a cut tire a little before Coldbrook Campground. Pete and Ally went on by, and I still caught them after changing the tube and the tire (with some help from a SAG car that came by just as I was taking the wheel off!). We spent a long time at the equestrian park/lunch stop, and my legs were fairly dead when we started up again. Ally was only going part way, and Pete was racing to see how he could do, so I gave chase but never caught him. I don't think my time was too far off from his, though, as I was feeling pretty strong after my legs warmed up, and once I was past the switchbacks I really picked up my speed, or so it seemed. I felt good descending and was able to push well into the headwinds on the bit of junk miles back to Santa Fe Dam at the end.