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Confirmed sighting of a mountain unicyclist

Letter from Adam Krom

Recreation – March 2005 – Colorado Central Magazine

Confirmed sighting of a mountain unicyclist

Editors:

I read with interest your short feature on mountain unicycles in the December 2004 issue. I instantly remembered the first time I came across one in its habitat. My wife and I were in Colorado Springs for a get-together with friends and family when we stole away for an afternoon in Fox Run Park, which is tucked into the Black Forest north of the city.

Unicyclist on mountain trail
Unicyclist on mountain trail

It was a perfect fall day in early October, and we were enjoying the serenity of the park’s trails, ponds, and streams, when around a bend in the trail came the strange sight of a man struggling up the steep gravel slope on just one wheel.

I was so stunned that all I could do was watch him go by, but after he did so I got out my digital camera as fast as possible and tried to catch a shot of him before he disappeared beyond another bend in the trail. I thought that if I couldn’t get a picture of the man on his steed that our relatives would give the story about as much credit as a Sasquatch sighting.

I have attached the picture so you can judge for yourself the veracity of my story.

Adam Krom

Philadelphia