Chapter 6 – Touching the sky in Colorado

Colorado was by far the best State we cycled through. Finally cycling was fun again! As soon as we entered it we could feel how people love sport. Bicycles everywhere, for the first time we did not feel weird. People are also extremely helpful and chilled out, the mountains stunning, and the terrain smooth and nice. Colorado we love you!

After spending 2 days off in Steamboat it took a while to get back in the cycling mode, but at least we charged up with energies for the high passes to come.

Chapter 5 – Avoiding the Divide

After the National Parks the Great Divide route leads to the Great Basin, a 135 miles stretch known as the biggest graveyard in the USA. We knew there were works along the way and some bit had been rerouted, and because the temperatures have been very high over the previous weeks and especially because we couldn’t really be bothered to spend days in a desert, we decided to follow the Trans American route for the following 4 days and rejoin the Great Divide in Rawlins.

Chapter 4 – Yellowstone and Grand Tetons National Parks

After a stormy night we cycled an easy 82km mostly on paved road and highway to the west gate of Yellowstone. We left Montana, entered Idaho for 30km, then re-entered Montana, and finally got in Wyoming.  The plan was to (gladly) abandon the dusty roads of the Great Divide route for a week in order to explore Yellowstone and the Tetons.

Yellowstone