Lynx Pass to Kremmling 8/2 45 miles

To much protest, Silas rode with us this morning for 10 miles.  Actually, every morning that Silas rides, he protests.  But once he's out the door, he's happy as can be.  

We started on a gradual descent out of the campground with a creek beside us for several miles.  We eventually passed by a "preserved" historic building from the 1800's, that was once a post office, boarding house, and stop for Wells Fargo.  About a mile after that, we had to ford a creek.  It was about a foot deep, and Silas somehow conned Daren into pushing him across.  We had a great ride through rolling hills, and toward the exit point for Silas, we came across ranchers unloading their cattle from cattle cars to graze a new area of land.  It was pretty chaotic with them unloading right on our trail, and us trying not to spook the horses and cowboys.  At this point, Daren and I missed our turn.  For one thing, we thought it was up the highway a mile from the drop off, and secondly we just didn't see the road sign in front of us because of the chaos.  It turns out that the trail was moved to this point(an addendum was sent for the map which we forgot about).  We rode up to the old trail head, and found it completely grown over and covered in downed trees.  The GPS had it right though, and we found ourselves riding past the cowboys again and up to the new trail.  This trail was tough!  Steep climbing right off and for 7 miles, on rough rocky roads.  But then at the top we had a great view of the Colorado River below us, and a very steep descent down to Radium and the Colorado River.
 The day was really starting to heat up, so we decided to soak our shirts in the river before starting our next big climb.  We lost a lot of elevation going to the river, down to 7000ft from 9000ft, and were going to have to make it back up to 8500ft.  Fortunately after the first hot section, a huge thunderstorm started up.  We were very thankful for the rain(just like home) and no lightning, to get us over the last pass.  Then we had the best 10 mile descent.  I hit top speed of 36 on the dirt road with no fear of flying over any cliffs.  We ended our day in Kremmling, an old shipping post, and now staging area for flyfishermen and rafting companies.

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