Today was a pretty rough day. The bike shop was closed when I got into Canon City and there were some really strong head winds. After Canon City, there was about 7 miles of climbing which was pretty exhausting. After I got up, I took the back road to the Royal Gorge because it looked like something worth visiting. Since it was not the highway, they did not care what the grades were on the hills. They were extremely steep and there was no shoulder. I had to stop to catch my breath about every half mile. I finally made it to the top and it was pretty cool. I took a lot of pictures and headed out. A few miles after leaving the park, there was about 5 miles of going down hill at about 35 miles an hour with my brakes on. Sounds fun, but it was a little scary because the road was really bad. After meeting back up with highway 50, I saw storm clouds in the distance. It stormed for about an hour so I got under this tent which wasn't actually rain proof. So I just sat there and got wet for an hour. I headed back out and the view was really cool. The road follows the Arkansas river and it winds around and there's a lot to see. I'm camped out right now about 5 miles east of Cotopaxi, about 30 miles short of my destination. I still got 50 miles in though, despite all the steep hills.
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