18 mile pedal mainly up
mile18 - 20 - walk with bike
mile 20-20.79 sort of back on the bike
20.79 - 24.65 - downhill
24.65 - 31.65 painful elevation loss downhill on jeep road
Scenery gorgeous. Felt like we went uphill all day with no or little descending as a reward for our effort. South end of trail had a lot of loose rock on trail. Probably would recommend going other direction, but harder to set up a shuttle that way. Perhaps with dedicated driver and good 4wd vehicle to get up road at South end.
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| Francine at the 6:15am start to try and beat the heat |
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| Don happy that it is cold out still |
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| Don with smoke in the background |
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| Francine |
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| Kevin in our only patch of snow on the trail |
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| One of the two downhill trail sections |
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| Kevin & Don answering the phone call from God |
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| You can see Don in the lower left. Our trail is in the right, middle of the picture. |
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| We think some heavy rain within the last two weeks washed away the trail and covered it with rocks |
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| This must be between mile 20 to 20.79 where Francine was back on the bike more than she was walking |
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| Don on the 3 mile downhill to Marble Pass |
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| Francine at Marble Pass, the end of the Elkhorn Crest Trail 24.65 miles. We still get to lose a painful few thousand feet on a dirt road. |
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| We saw I-phone photos some hikers took of the big goats on the hoods of the trucks, with the kids running around them on the ground |
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