Day 47: Steamboat to Kremmling, CO

Ride time: 6:02

Average:  10.7 mph

Distance: 64.81 mi

Nate dashed back over to the bagel place for breakfast and then brought them back to the hotel room for a faux breakfast in bed...  Our goal today is to make it to Kremmling, so we had two choices: follow the route or take Hwy 40.  Two natives advised us to not take the highway because there is no shoulder, so we heeded their advice and followed the route.


We headed out of town on pavement, and ran into tons of roadies.  It's nice to see so many people biking...  Then we hit a pretty cool section of the trail--tons of aspens on a narrow road.  We climbed up to the reservoir and then did some fun "almost-single-track" around the reservoir.

View from the damn

Of course, there were storm clouds brewing to the south, but they didn't look as though we were going to hit them.  I try so hard to be optimistic about the weather...Sigh...We had quite a ways to go to Kremmling, so we picked up the pace and crossed Lynx Pass, Gore Pass, and then rode our way to Kremmling.  It began raining at Lynx Pass and didn't stop until we were almost done with the ride.  We had to stop at Gore Pass to change into dry clothes for the ride down.  Nate can really hold it together in cold weather; I fall apart.

Miserable from the rain and cold