A serious Ride... 27 miles

Yesterday, Dan and I rode up Findley, up Ferris Gulch, along the ridge up panther gulch and came out on the top of East Fork road.  From east fork Road we cruised back on the road back to the house.  It was quite a ride and my legs are still a little tired.  There a couple of great singletracks on this ride.  Dan had a 05 rockhopper comp that our nephew left in the garage.  I thought I'd give it a try since it has a front suspension fork.  Only problem is that it is a 17.5"  Which is quite a bit smaller than my 19inch 96' kona Kilauea.  It gave a pretty good ride.  The geometry is radically different.  I'm going to give it one more ride before I decide to stick with it.  I felt myself having to learn over the handlebars a lot on the climbs.