Sink Canyon

We meet the boys from Missouri today and had another pre-ride ride.  I will take a photo of the team and introduce you tomorrow.  You will quickly identify the guys from MO from their NRA hats.

Today's ride was in Lander, WY and it was a ride up Sink Canyon.  This was a 15-20 mile ride - should I say climb.   The total elevation gain for the ride was 3333.3 feet (from Ken's GPS).  Everybody made it to the top which was about 9700 feet high.   Total ride was about 35 miles.

A shot of Ken at the top....

For the sake of full disclosure, everybody (but me) made it to the top.   I was about 1 mile from the top and for unspecified reasons had to do an immediate and hasty turn around

In any case all ended well. About 2 pm, Ken and I jumped on the shuttle to Cody.  It w as about a 3 1/2 hour ride and while we brought a couple of beers along for the ride - the bus did not have a bathroom - so we elected to forego our drinks.

The bus pretty much followed the route we are going to ride on our bikes and everybody on the bus was freaking out  Lots of climbs, 90 plus degree weather, rough roads and cars buzzing by at 70 mph.  And without exaggeration (maybe a slight exaggeration) we did not see a house, store or green grass for a couple hundred miles. Scrub brush followed by more scrub brush, followed by more scrub brush.  No shade whatsoever.

We are in Cody now and have internet service.  Our last experience with beds as tonight we begin our camping adventure.  Not sure about internet service - hell even my phone doesn't work here.

So blogging might be a challenge.  Will try to get some shots of the land and the other team members.  Cheers....