From Del Norte we rode 12 or so miles up the road between thunderstorms to get to a cabin available for cyclists. It was not what we expected! I have a lot more pictures but this is the only one on my phone. It was an amazing place with everything homemade and a lot of metal work.
From there it was up Indiana pass to the highest elevation on the route! 11910! It was a high point literally and figuratively for the day. Shortly after we got caught in yet another storm. Fortunately we rolled up to a cabin full of atv'ers and they let us take shelter and fed us! We got rained on more on the way down to Platoro and were so cold that we just stopped riding there. Oh and we hit more mud that rendered our drive trains inoperable. Had to wash them in a stream best we could before continuing.
We decided after this ride, one of several in succession, that we were done. We were going to ride the route to Abiquiui or Cuba but the map warns of bad mud in rain and our nerves are shot from all the thunderstorms. We've been riding early to avoid them but they've been hitting before noon the past few days. We've been starting our days not looking forward to riding but dreading when the storms would hit and how vulnerable we'd be.
So we're riding roads to Santa Fe from here. We'll get there a bit early so we're hoping to ride some single track somewhere nearby once we get there.
Riding up out of the valley (Conejos canyon) we rode down from Platoro. Pretty but one of the worst roads we've been on.
Made it to NM today also. Rode the great divide route all the way through CO except for the last few miles where we diverted to the road.
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