There has been a continual flow of cyclists almost from the beginning of the Great Divide route. The frequency of seeing them seems to have increased in the last week to the point that I’ve finally lost count. What is most surprising is the number of cycle tourers travel the opposite direction. Every time I come down a long downhill or get a generous boost from a westerly wind I say to myself, “Sure glad I’m not going the other direction”.

These two bikes belong to a Basque couple traveling north and represent just about the maximum you can put on a touring bike, outside of China.

Not sure if you can read the notice posted on a Forest Service roadside board, so I’ll interpret: Grizzly trapping during 6/20 and 8/19. Everywhere we’ve camped and traveled the warnings about storing food away from your camp are everywhere, with many official campgrounds providing bear boxes and even one site two days ago had a horse trailer set up as a bear proof storage cage. I rolled my bike right inside so I didn’t have to unload the food stashed in the frame packs,

Much of the last several days route has been in high plains of
the continental divide. Unfenced prairie that rolls and undulates on and on, with the Tetons or Wind River ranges as a backdrop.

There has also been a number of CDT thru hikers that I’ve come across, as the two routes converge quite often in this region. Not sure a six month trek is in my cards.