49: Rio Grande Headwaters
After another chilly start (there is a dusting of fresh snow visible on Uncompahgre Peak this morning), was soon back in the Colorado alpine peddling west into the San Juan mountains. The trail along the stretch was generally quite rideable. The San Juan are without a doubt the most dramatic mountain range along the CDT.
This is a funny stretch of CDT, where the divide traces a horseshoe, the interior of which is the headwaters for the Rio Grande River.
Wanting to make it to Creede in time for dinner, I turned off at Pole Creek, writing a short stretch of the Hardrock 100 course.
Brewster Park was so pretty that if I had another days worth of food with me I would have stopped to camp, just to soak up the landscape.
Creede was a bit of a ghost town so after grabbing some dinner I pedaled on to South Fork (another 22 miles, not shown on this activity).
