Sunday, September 6th, 58 miles and 5047 accumulated vertical feet up.
We have escaped the Wyoming Continental Divide Basin and finally found some trees and more variety in the surrounding landscape. It was a hard day on the bikes. You can see that we climbed just short of mile today (per Ride With GPS, Per Garmin we climbed about 5400 feet).
There was Zero favorable wind today, for the first time ever on this trip we consciously fought the wind by using a draft line for several hours.
Four times today the trail Angles descended on us with cold water, drinks, snacks, and soft drinks (see pics and captions below). The last occasion (4th) was within about 3 miles of our overnight location and we did not document with photos — but here’s what happened, we were rolling down this gravel road and a camper van pulls up from behind and stops. The dude (driver) roles down his window and asks us if we want something to drink, he hands us each a cold can of pop and explains that he is van supporting his daughter’s (and his daughter’s friend) hike of the CDT, she appears from the back of the van sharing some details and making sure we got what we needed. It’s so awesome to see how folks help people like us who are just out here doing what we LOVE to do!
Tonight’s location is called Sandstone Cabins, it’s a US Forest Service facility with one useable old cabin, one unusable cabin, (our tents are in the back yard of the unusable cabin) a ROUGH 9 hole golf course and a few unused rv campsites and get this a FULL TIME campground host, who has been hosting this place for 19 years and played over 100 nine hole rounds with guests on this remote course this season!!
Saying goodbye to Downtown Rawlings, by the way we stayed on this same road for 54 miles today without a turn.Nice Reservoir a little south of Rawlings Blue Sky, Desert Landscape, big headwinds, endless horizons, and pavement earlyTrying to find some challengesMore, Blue Sky, Desert Landscape, big headwinds, endless horizons, and pavement continuesFirst Trail Angle Stop — yes there’s ice and bottles of water in that cooler Second, Trail Angle Stop — yes there’s ice and bottles of water in that cooler and snacks and small items like duct tape, lip balm, etc. We also met a young man and woman who were hiking the CDT here, Kanga (Grand Rapids, MI) and George (from the UK), 3 years ago she sold a “house” and made in her words “lemonade from some lemons she fell into” and ended up with enough money to hike the AT then the PCT and now the CDT. They are Southbound hoped to finish around November 15th. Third Trail Angle Location, this was the best, cold pop, Gatorade, fruit, candy, cookies, water, and a box of miscellaneous hiker/biker supplies including 1st Aid stuff, lip balm, scissors, pins, and much more. Read the cooler lidThis was on top of the cooler Better look at contentsWhen will the Basin endMore DesertWe think that is Bridger Peak at 11,004 feetWhy do they just now tell us this, we have seen cows roaming wherever since day one!!Look, we must have gotten out of the Desert!! Beautiful Aspen Trees!😀😀🚴♂️🚴♂️I slept 9 1/2 hours and it rained just a little bit!
Monday, September 7th (Labor Day), 46.7 miles and 3162 accumulated vertical feet up.
Southern Wyoming Beautiful Ranch with cattle Looking for Colorado We’re in Colorado!!!Hmmmm???Little Snake River Three Forks Ranch, this was a top notch ranch, Rusty check out these balesWe got our change of scenery Columbine General Store, ginger ale, salty potato chips, ice cream & a Perfect BarScott is a little worked up, this is the first real campground with a shower and flush toilets we have been in since Winnipeg (well he was in one in Bigfork),Good night from Steamboat Lake State Park, Colorado
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I am always amazed at the pride the rancher have in their heritage of settling this high-plains desert. Beautiful…keep going!
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