Telluride, CO to Dolores, CO, about 63 miles. I've now finished riding through the Rocky Mountains. They were truly spectacular. I started this morning with a cold rainy hike on the Jud Wiebe trail in Telluride. After I finished that I had some breakfast and took off on my bike up the rest of Lizard Head Pass, my final Rocky Mountain pass. At the top I met two cyclists from France, one going from LA to Seattle in a roundabout way to see the West, and his father who joined just for part of the trip from Cortez, CO to Denver. The descent from the pass was very cold and rainy. I shivered the whole way down to Rico, the first town after the pass. After getting lunch there I kept on going, with a gentle descent from the Rockies all the way to Dolores with some on-and-off rain. I met a guy named Mike on the road who has been living off his bike for the past 7.5 years. He was on his way to the Grand Canyon.
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