Another night!
I left Vail after my gondala ride to the top of the MT. I suppose to see Holly Cross never happened. However did see lots of 14 teeners. The amazing view helped that I didn't have to climb. I joked " this is the easiest MT I have climbed yet." After they found I was from Phoenix we all had a laugh.
One interesting thing is they don't stop them you just jump in. It isn't going to fast and wheel chair people have e it stopped for them. It was great like a roller coaster ride. In winter an all day pass will cost over a hundred bucks. Today free. There was some lighting in the area so it was shut down for about 45. The thing is you get stuck up there once it shuts down. So I went up marveled at the beauty. And got back down when it started to rain. No way I wanted to get stuck up there for hours. They also have a place you can get married. Like I saw the cross I could see yet it is 1500 feet so maybe the rain or snow prevented this.
Comming back down I was all by myself. I was dancing and yelling it was awesome. The rain was comming down pretty hard now or was it this side of the MT. What about my stuff? At first you feel some Gs but it settles down. It was great feeling descending into the compact village. It was also neat to get a birds eye view now that I had bike the town a few times.
The subsided by the time I got down thank my stars. There was a couple who where going to hike down the thing ha! In that shorts and t shirt wow cold and wet.
I picked up my dry bike and forged through the mass of people walking about. Funny they have dismount zones.
I then with any ped friendly town cross I 70 with a ped bridge, and found Sandstone road which turns into 700 forest road which I could see from my ride down the MT.
After a 1.5 hours walking and biking I was about top give up. See I was in a forest so no problems there, yet I was going aside a steep cliff so no level ground. Finally a turn and poof power lines. Which means access road and Ben finds a nice level camp site. There is a pop up camper here also. So success.
Free gondala ride, free bike adjustment, and free night stay. All in probably the most expensive place in CO.
I am in red sand stone hence the road it gets everywhere and stains everything red.
Just like back in my tour.
Last night it rained and I hope we can avoid that yuck.

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