It wasn't the 471 miles that made this year's ride hard, it was the 33,000 feet of elevation gain.
Day one was the hardest but the ride was cut short when RTR closed the route at Berthoud Pass because of bad weather causing dangerous riding conditions.
The night in Winter Park was really cold. The tent froze up and had to be packed frozen. It was still froze that afternoon in Steamboat when I unpacked.
Roger, the leader of Roger's Riders, waiting to be bussed over Berthoud when they closed the route down.
On day 6 we braked for the Pearl Harbor Memorial Highway near I70 west of Denver.
Tennessee Pass marks the original training area at Camp Hale for the 10th Mountain Division which fought in Italy and the Aleutian Islands in WWII and many places since.
Roger's Riders at Lookout Mountain, six miles from the finish at Golden, CO.
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