Day
18
Day eighteen
Colorado, finally.
Glade Park, Colorado
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The moment we will remember
A short day out of Clifton into the red rock above Grand Junction — the first Colorado kilometres of an expedition that was never meant to come here at all.
“The best part of the route turned out to be the part we did not plan.”
Sixteen kilometres, but they were Colorado kilometres. Some distances matter for reasons that have nothing to do with their length.
16.4 km
Kilometres
111 m
Elevation gained
42m
Hours riding
Stage
Into the San Luis Valley