The Road to Mimbres.

Was pretty special. To give you an idea of the day, we awake at about 6:00am to knock the frost off our tents. We're at altitude so the cold really comes down in the night and I'm resorting to no less than four quilted packing blankets to keep me from hypothermia at the moment. Things should improve in that department soon as we're about to go over Emory pass at 8200ft, the highest point of the tour tomorrow and start the descent into Texas and warmer climes. Once we're up we help ourselves to breakfast which is usually coffee, a bagel and some peanut butter for me but everyone has their own thing as there's plenty on offer. Then it's time to check the bike, fill up with liquids, pack a sandwich for lunch which for me will be cheese as I don't trust ham that's been marinating in its own juices for four hours in 90 deg heat. Then we pack our stuff up, put away the tent and start the days riding. Today we went up towards Roberts Lake and a 3000ft climb through amazing sun dappled pine forests with barely a car in sight. Finally we went over the Continental Divide again and started dropping down through quick switchbacks to the lake. Views from up top were exceptional. Having said that it was quite cold and there were still patches of snow at the side of the road in places. After a long haul along the lake road we crested the continental divide again (3rd time) and headed for Mimbres our destination tonight. One the we made some bike repairs, Flynn popped a spoke so we've fixed that and had a nice filling dinner of tortellini. On e we pitched our tents it was time for the nightly map meeting and then bed, where I'm now posting to the blog.

Basically, I'm knackered.