mpw81
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Had a quick adventure to the top of Mount Evans/Blue Sky this morning. We live in west Denver so we stopped in ID Springs for a breakfast burrito and coffee and then headed up the mountain. Fun trip, definitely used the overhead 360 camera view a handful of times in narrow spots when passing cars with a cliff next to us.
Other Highlights:
Other Highlights:
- Guy with an early 2022 reservation comes up once we park at the summit to chat me up, very excited, only 2nd he'd seen in person before
- On our way out I was creeping out of our spot and there was a guy walking toward me and sort of loudly said "hey" to get our attention (window open but I'm convinced he was about to step in front of the truck anyway). Turns out he was driving the F-something 50 diesel behind me. Thick southern accent says jokingly "you were able to get that up here on that battery." I told him I left the house at 70% and still had 100 miles left and I joked that I probably wasn;'t going to use much battery on the way down, he seemed impressed and was pretty good natured about the whole thing. Traded a couple other Q&As and said have a good day and went on with it.
- Got flagged down by some hikers on the way down, one of them sprained an ankle pretty bad so we had some bed cargo down to the summit lake lot
- I waved on a cyclist headed down who yelled "Thanks, cool truck" excitedly at me as he flew by.
- Handful of thumbs up from other drivers coming up
- Bunch of 'whoo hoos" and fistbumps and thumbs up from cyclists headed up, which impressed me because they all looked like they were going to die.
- Stopped in Evergreen for lunch and sitting at the light right below the dam I look in the side view mirror and see a Canyon Red truck 3 cars behind me, HA. People must have thought a Rivian club was looking to fight a biker gang at the Little Bear.
- 101 miles of range at the top of the mountain and 103 at home. Trip meter set for the return currently shows 0 Total Energy adn 0.0 mi/Kwh (trip meter pic below is at our stop in Evergreen)
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