![]() Luckily the temperature was in the low 60s and we had a tailwind. It was a bit hillier than I had anticipated. I ate there 4 times including dinner last night. 4 Comments Bike Tour 2022 – Cañon City to Guffey Miles today: 48 Tour miles: 1,343.5 The view from Current Creek Pass Buffalo Gulch The approach to Fairplay Posted on JJby Rootchopper Posted in #bikedc Tagged bike tour, Biketour2022, Colorado, Fairplay, Guffey, Hartsel, TransAm, TransAmerica Trail. ![]() We are more than a week away so we hope to luck out and get to ride through the southwest corner of the park. We continue to closely monitor the situation in Yellowstone where massive flooding of the Yellowstone River has destroyed infrastructure in sections of the park. After taking some photos we get to descend through Breckenridge to either Silverthorne or Frisco. ![]() Tomorrow we will climb to 11,515 feet to ride over Hoosier Pass, the highest point in the trip. At the motel I methodically cleaned and re-lubed the chain with my old lube. I switched chain lubes in Kansas and the chain has become a mess. I’ve been having mechanical problems with my drive train. We checked into a dumpy motel and called it quits. We had discussed continuing on ten miles to Alma but we were toast and we knew it. It’s just enough elevation gain to be demoralizing. A false flat looks level but actually ascends gradually. My map said that there would be a series of short climbs on this stretch but what we experienced was more like an 18-mile false flat. The 18-mile ride that followed featured a view of mountain valleys and snow capped mountains. ![]() The serious business behind us, we enjoyed a 13 mile ride through Buffalo Gulch to second breakfast in Hartsel. We bombed down from the pass, rode through a valley, then climbed right back up an unnamed hill of the same elevation. The early morning’s work involved climbing to Current Creek Pass at 9,404 feet. The deer ran and fought eventually shaking the attacker off and making its escape.Ī short while later we stopped along the road to peel off our warm layers. For a while the canid had the deer by the throat. In a field to the left of the road a coyote (or perhaps a wolf) was chasing a small deer. Heading north on Highway 9, we came across an interesting scene right out of Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom. We started our ride with a steep 1.3 mile descent. Miles today: 48 Tour miles: 1,343.It was tolerably cold last night temperatures were in the high 40s at dawn. (A false flat looks level but actually ascends gradually.) I was just enough elevation gain to be demoralizing. It was tolerably cold last night temperatures were in the high 40s at dawn.
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