A rest day focused on beer, not a rest day from beer.
We rolled into Salida around mid day Friday and went straight to the bike shop. Despite a previous diagnosis and "repair" that didn't work, the bike mechanic at sub culture bike shop found my headset to be quite the train wreck. He was super nice and got us out of there in a few hours and with way less monetary damage than he rightfully could of. Feels nice now.
While the bike was being serviced we ate pizza and had beer at moonlight pizza. Their white ipa was tasty and a saison mixed with hard apple cider was surprisingly nice!
Then it was off to Amica brewing where I had another saison that was great. Best in a while.
While picking up the bike, Murph arrived. We guided on the Lehigh river about 8 years ago and I hadn't seen him since. Murph was always one of my favorite people so it was great that his plans for going to the salida beer festival coincided with our trip!! We had a great time catching up.
The festival was Saturday and was fantastic. Lots of solid saisons, session pales, a few notable sours, and one or two stand out IPAs. Best beer festival I've been too hands down, and I was introduced to the pretzel necklace, which I'm sure will now be standard equipment.
Murph was also at the festival with a dozen or more friends from CO. It was great to meet them all!
Short ride today due to logistics. Up and over Marshall pass, just under 11k. At the top we got caught in a gnarly thunderstorm with a bunch of other people and all crowded into an outhouse. That makes two outhouse shelters for this trip.
Nice descent to Sargents where we ate and watched pea size hail fall. Sleeping here tonight and then off to who knows where tomorrow. 7 days of riding left.
Notable animal sightings recently: coyote and porcupine. 
Hartsel ranch and moonlight.
Not sure I've seen a cactus blooming before. From our campsite for two nights in salida.
Me, Murph, pretzel necklaces.
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