123.11km. 1,271m ascent. 6h16 ride time After an excellent night’s sleep in the superb church hostel in Sebree we were ready for a big ride It started fairly flat, it was cool and the only thing against us was the wind (all day) so a good start and we had plenty of opportunity to fill…
83.58km. 1,053m ascent. 4h21 ride time We gained a short term Co-lodger last night. Hans-Udo arrived shortly after midnight and left again at the break of dawn. He is racing the TransAmerica bike race He looked really worn out and almost asleep on his feet. Maybe it would have been a challenge I would take…
Hutchinson to El Dorado. 132.08 km. 624m ascent. 6h33 ride time Hard and hot. It was already over 30C at 08h00 and only got hotter…. The wind was supposed to abate around midday and also change direction, it didn’t. The temperature was supposed to go down to 24C by 17h00, it didn’t. Our problem was…
Walden to Kremmling. 129.87km. 901m ascent. 6h04 ride time Today we went over the Willow Creek pass at 2,950m which, I think, is the highest so far. We have been above 2,000m for the past week so reasonably well acclimatised to the elevation ( Sorry America, I can’t bring myself to say acclimated 😱) The…
West Yellowstone to Bridge Bay campground. 101km. 957m ascent. 5:43 ride time We had been looking forward to this day for quite a while and our expectations were more than met. Today was to be a sightseeing day following tips we got from Larry in Dillon We saw bison, a lot of bison! and the…
Ennis to West Yellowstone. 116.73km. 970m. 6h23 riding After a good night’s sleep at our Warmshowers host’s house, she was absent but gave us the use of her house anyway It was a long ride that shouldn’t have been too hard if we didn’t have the 30km/h head wind. That made the ride a real…
Brownlee to Evergreen campground No power in my legs today, no idea why but they were not doing well Straight after an enormous breakfast burrito which even I didn’t manage to finish After the 650m / 7km climb we went back down to about the same height and then had 60km of gentle climb to…