Today Tyler and I hit the last pass of Colorado, the Willow Creek Pass @ 9,621ft! Started from Kremmling, we had to climb 2,000ft but had a decent 50 miles to do so. It turned out to be an easy climb except for the last two miles where we gained 500ft or so. This pass had a simple sign at the top but nothing exciting like Hoosier.
I was expecting a nice decent after the pass but the route turned into up and down hills. I'm sure we lost altitude overall but we had some short climbs where we were expecting nothing but some fast decent miles.
Just like yesterday, the sky got dark in the afternoon and we found ourselves once again being chased by a thunderstorm. Then one popped up on our left in the distance, then our right. We were surrounded!
We rolled into Walden with thunderstorms following close behind. Tyler spotted a sheriff and confirmed with him that we'd be camping in the town park. When we got there we spied a nice park gazebo which we could set our tents up in and keep them dry, but it was currently being used by some tweens, so we sat down at some picnic tables. A few minutes later rain started dropping and we decided to take over the gazebo by just walking inside with our bikes and plopping ourselves down. That was enough for the tweens as two minutes later they left, leaving the gazebo all to us. The wind picked up and it started hailing, so even though the gazebo was covered, loads of hail found its way inside the gazebo, causing us to play "dodge the incoming projectiles."
Undeterred, we waited out the storm and eventually it passed and we set up our tents and turned in early as we wanted to cross over into Wyoming and get to Rawlins, 110 miles away tomorrow.
Start: Kremmling, CO
End: Walden, CO
Distance: 82.05 miles
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