After a good night sleep - helped I am sure by the beers we had the night before - we headed off down the road after our extended good byes to the Sideways Crew.
Jerry's wife Debbie, who is also a very keen cyclist, decided to ride with us for a couple hours while Jerry packed up camp & he picked her up further down the road.
It was nice to have another person ride with us - even if it was only for a couple hours.
We headed downhill for a while - nice way to start the day - but the mornings are getting cold so it can be rather chilly!
We then started riding up into a really nice canyon - the scenery here in Colorado is beautiful - hugs rock cliffs & gulches everywhere.
We had another pass crossing ahead today (10166ft), at the top we only had a 7km downhill to the campsite for the night - we arrived at the campsite to find the water pump broken & the site just not being very inspiring to us as the weather was changing & the black clouds were rolling in - we knew another campsite was about 6km downhill so we decided to push on.
We arrived & the campsite was much nicer so we were all plsed we had made the extra 6km trip.
Just as we were setting up our tents the wind picked up & the rain came down so we all huddled in the foyer of the restroom for about 20mins waiting for a break in the rain.
We finally got one & we dashed out & finished putting the tents up & managed to cook some tea.
Scott & Alan went gathering fire wood as we decided a fire would be great as it was quite cold.
The fire was lit & just as it got going well the wind picked up again & the rain came down... so we called it an early night & into the tents we dashed - it was only 8pm - nice!
DISTANCE: 58.7km
AVERAGE: 16.3kph
RIDE TIME: 3.36hrs
ASCEND: 755m
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