Tuesday, July 1 - 48 miles from Riverside, WY to Walden, CO. Total 1,979 miles to date. It's a new month and a new state (Colorado). Headwinds are always tiring. Period. That's all you need to know about that. I did not take many pictures of the Great Divide Basin. Not for lack of beauty, it is grand and beautiful in its vast, apparent emptiness and subtleness of color, light, texture, and form. It's just that you can't capture panoramic vastness. It would take wide angle IMAX to even come close. You also can't capture the wind, the stillness, the brightness, nor the timelessness of it all. It is breathtaking in its own unique way! By 12:00 I was dodging thunderstorms and waiting 20 minutes for one to pass. We made Walden by 1:30 and lunch at the Moose Creek Cafe. Tomorrow begins serious climbing leading up the next day to Hoosier Pass at over 11,000 feet.
Tentative CO plans: Wed. - overnight at Hot Sulfur Springs or Kremmling, Thurs. - overnight in Silverthorne or Frisco, Fri. - overnight in Hartsel, and Sat. - overnight in Canon City or Florence or if good tailwind, Pueblo.
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