Day 49 Salida CO to Sargents CO

Another perfect days weather assured & expected to continue.

Audrey, is the young manger at the Salida Hostel & takes good care of everyone, including, each morning bakes cakes for her guests – this mornings treat was blueberry – consumed in minutes – very nice.

Todays ride started with a gentle ride out of Salida before the 20 mile climb up to the Divide at Marshal Pass

Salida has scattering of Pueblo style buildings – a hint that next state is New Mexico

Mears Junction- & onto gravel & the pass.

Just beyond Mears Junction, was a town called Shirley, & sat along the vital trade route over the pass connecting the Arkansas & Gunnison valleys.

From here the route up to the pass follows a Denver & Rio Grand Western Railway & lots of photo opportunities

A few shots of the climb

Marshall Pass

Photos of descent to Sargents

At the end the ride, I came across my first ranch sign in days