After a night of strong winds & rain on the tent we awoke to a lovely sunny day - not a cloud in the sky.
We set off knowing we had a 90ish km day ahead but from all accounts it looked like it was a reasonably easy ride today with just a 7km climb up Ute pass.
We stopped for morning tea at Williams Folk Reservoir then continued another 25km to a lovely campsite by a river for lunch, after lunch we tackled the 7km climb which was actually quite a nice steady grade so that was a nice surprise for us.
We had a 10km downhill on the other side to meet the Highway #9 then unfortunately we turned into a headwind & slight uphill for the 20km ride to Silverthorne which made the going just that little tougher, just as we were getting tired.
Silverthorne was quite a surprise for us - it appears it is the home to the Outlet factory stores even a Pearl Izumi store (which Jo bought new glove as hers have fallen to bits)
After checking out a few other outlet stores we headed out of town to the designated campsite only to find Mc Donald’s on our route - so we had to stop for a quick refuel of Cheese burgers, fries, chocolate sundae‘s & Cokes
We finally reached the campsite about 6:30pm which was a lovely site but the Dillon Reservoir.
We cooked tea but thanks to our Mc D’s entree we could not actually finish it!
After cleaning up from cooking & getting all the panniers put away in the vestibule of the tent we went for a short walk to register our site , upon returning Jo hopped into the tent to find that the panniers seem to have fallen against the inner tent wall so she unzipped the door & found there was a missing food pannier, after asking Scott what he had done with it , Scott went investigating to find a cheeky Racoon dragging it off into the bushes….What The!!!
He managed to convince the Racoon to leave it & we put it back in the vestibule.
About 30mins later we were quietly sitting in the tent reading our books to hear a very loud sniffing outside of the tent - we figured it was the friendly (hungry) campsite Racoon back so we clapped our hands & made some noise - but to no avail - it was after the food for sure .
Scott unzipped the tent door to come face to face with the cheeky Racoon, it took off & we took off after it trying to get a look at it… typical kiwi’s
We then got busy hanging our food panniers & placing rocks around the edge of the tent to try & discourage the Racoon from entering the tent again, we figured a Racoon caught under the vestibule of the tent & not being able to get out would not be good for the Racoon or the tent!
As we were finishing our handy work it started to rain so we did not hear from our new Racoon friend again.
DISTANCE: 95kmkm
AVERAGE: 15.5km
RIDE TIME: 6.07hrs
ASCEND: 1170mtrs
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