We were camping in Steamboat Springs, CO. One of those busy commercial joints. We asked if they had somewhere we could put our food or if we should just bear bag it (hang from tree). The employee laughed and said that isn't a problem here but thanks for asking.
In the middle of the night we heard a bike fall over. We where very tired and it was very windy. So no investigation.
In the morning we found the damage. The bear had ripped into our dry bag/pannier and eaten nearly all of our food and our bug spray. It also shredded Jennie's front dry bag and cracked her helmet.
Fortunately upon explaining what happened to the campground, the owner cut us a check to cover some of our costs. It was very generous and made the damage easier to bear.
We rounded up a new pannier, dry bag, helmet, and cache of food in steamboat. It was lucky we were in a town that had everything! We were riding by noon and by 8 or so had done all the miles we had planned to do.
Where we are camped is lousy with Mosquitos so it is probably best we got here late anyway. We are our dinner while briskly walking around the campsite to avoid the mosquitos.
Some really great riding today. Lots of climbing and a really cool descent! We are camped along the Colorado river! Lack of pictures due to time crunch.
60 miles today, Silverthorne tomorrow. Bear damages below.
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