Category: USA
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Walden, CO to Hot Sulphur Springs, CO
We headed straight south out of Walden, with a plan to exit the mountain-encircled North Park basin via yet another crossing of the Continental Divide at Willow Creek Pass. A shorter, lower-elevation route to Kremmling would be to take CO-14 southwest, but the emptiness we found on CO-125 told us immediately that the extra miles…
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Riverside, WY to Walden, CO
Yesterday on the way into town some knuckleheads yelled something goofy to us as they drove by, but my opinion of them improved when I realized they were part of a wedding party celebrating a good time (just as long as the driver was relatively sober, and they seemed to be). But there seemed to…
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Rawlins, WY to Riverside, WY
Five miles of riding empty I-80 frontage roads brought us to Sinclair, a company town named after the oil company (whose iconic green dinosaur may be completely unfamiliar to my readers east of the Mississippi). The town has an impressive (if empty-feeling) Spanish-style center, with buildings whose stature seems too large for its 500-person population.…
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Jeffrey City, WY to Rawlins, WY
The alarm went off at 4:30am, to give us the best chance of avoiding the day’s strongest winds. But the whistling coming from the window in our dark room told us that we had already failed. Oh well, nothing to do but get going anyway, and at least our early-rise means that if we’re reduced…
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Lander, WY to Jeffrey City,WY
The only US state with a lower population density than Wyoming is Alaska. So between Lander and Rawlins lies 125 miles of nothing. Even though we’ve been setting records like crazy, we aren’t crazy enough to try for a 125-mile record, especially since our two days of descent are behind us and Rawlins sits 1300…