A short distance to cover today but it is a very hard 18km climb out of Golden. We started the day doing laundry and getting our bikes looked over. We had a great success regarding Agnes' bike today as the bike shop guys were actually helpful for once. They fitted a new back cassette so that Agnes could get an extra low gear which will help her a lot over the next few days through the Rockies. The front fork on my bike has been coming loose so I decided today with the advice from the guys at the shop to take some weight from the front and buy a backpack. This way I can take a good amount of weight from the bike. Hopefully it will be comfortable when riding.
We set off at around 3.00 and the 18km climb started straight away and wow was it hard, I most certainly broke a sweat today. When we reached near enough the top we stopped at a lookout point to an applause from various British tourists. We felt like celebrities for a moment. We headed off to Field in the pouring rain of course, it wouldn't feel right otherwise. Field was a very expensive horrible tourist trap of a place but with beautiful surroundings as we are well into the Rockie mountains now. We bought groceries at the village shop for about a million dollars and then headed off to the campsite just outside of town. This was a National Park campsite and more people had tents than RVs so it was great. The site was geared for tents with shelters and bear boxes to keep you food safe from the big bad bears at night. Of course we needed the shelter as it was raining.
I keep complaining about the rain but it isn't that bad, its just good to complain about something as the trip is amazing in every other way, plus it will toughen us up a bit.
We set off at around 3.00 and the 18km climb started straight away and wow was it hard, I most certainly broke a sweat today. When we reached near enough the top we stopped at a lookout point to an applause from various British tourists. We felt like celebrities for a moment. We headed off to Field in the pouring rain of course, it wouldn't feel right otherwise. Field was a very expensive horrible tourist trap of a place but with beautiful surroundings as we are well into the Rockie mountains now. We bought groceries at the village shop for about a million dollars and then headed off to the campsite just outside of town. This was a National Park campsite and more people had tents than RVs so it was great. The site was geared for tents with shelters and bear boxes to keep you food safe from the big bad bears at night. Of course we needed the shelter as it was raining.
I keep complaining about the rain but it isn't that bad, its just good to complain about something as the trip is amazing in every other way, plus it will toughen us up a bit.
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