Great Divide Mountain Bike Route, 2022, Tom G

Today (day 40) I made it a short day and got a hotel in Abiquiu, NM. Due to the changing terrain and weather, and me pretty much running out of food a day ago, I wanted to take a little time to reset and plan out the next section. For the rest of the way through New Mexico food and water options are much more limited and there is one section that appears to be 3 to 4 days without any food resupply options. I got my first flat today, which is normally a non-issue, but found out that the glue in both of my patch kits had hardened and was useless.  I had a spare tube to put in but that leaves me with limited options (going back to tubeless) if I have another flat. In the morning I plan to check the local stores for tubes but most likely will not find them. Pictures/video and commentary on the last few days appear below. Salida, CO to primitive campground at Upper Dome Dam: Salida is a really nice town for bicyclists and I had separated bike paths to use almost all the way to Poncha Sp...

Kremmling to Frisco: It was very foggy leaving Kremmling and the road out of town had no shoulder. Thankfully it was only 2 miles or so until I turned off on a dirt road.  (don't do this unless you have both a rear view mirror and a very bright flashing tail light) About 20 miles out I ran into Aaron loading up his bike at an campground and returned the 1.5L bottle he lost on a pass almost 3 days ago. He was quite surprised to get it back. After a couple thousand foot climb I enjoyed a long descent until the route rejoined hwy 9. From there it was a gradual climb to Silverthorne then Frisco. Kremmling fog: Aaron: Various pictures from the climb: Lake Dillon and a video of the best bike path I know of: I spent the night at a campground on the lake. Frisco to Hartsel: The morning was very cold and getting out of the tent was not easy.  After the air warmed up it turned out to be a surprisingly easy day. I was expecting Boreas Pass to be quite a challenge but due to the relativel...