Day: 050
Date: Tuesday, 25 June 2024
Start: Monarch Pass (but staying in Salida, CO)
Finish: Monarch Pass (but staying in Salida, CO)
Daily Kilometres: 0
GPX Track: Click here for Julie’s Strava & Photos from her run around Salida today.
Total Kilometres: 1463.2
Weather: Warm and sunny.
Accommodation: Motel
Nutrition:
Breakfast: Breakfast burritos
Lunch: Ham & cheese subs
Dinner: Enchiladas, rice & beans, icecream.
Aches: Dave - left calf still a little sore; Julie - nothing reported.
Highlight: Nothing in particular.
Lowlight: Nothing in particular.
Pictures: Click here
Map and Position: Click here for Google Map
Journal:
Julie went for an exploratory 10km run around Salida at 7am and came back glowing. She wouldn't mind living here. Surrounded by mountains, an emphasis on outdoor activities, bike paths and river trails, deer roaming the streets, historic town centre …. what's not to like? Of course, it would be cold in winter and she wouldn't like that.
Later we walked the 2km into the historic town centre, calling in at the Post Office and picking up a package of winter/snow gear we had mailed ahead to ourselves. We're going to carry it for the next four days in the high mountains and, if we don't use it, will retire it. We then enjoyed recommended breakfast burritos at a local restaurant. They were good, and cheap, and we bought two more to microwave for breakfast tomorrow.
Next stop was the local outdoor store where Julie exchanged, for free, her worn out Darn Tough socks for a new pair as per their guarantee. Dave also bought a new T-shirt having worn big holes in his existing one in just seven weeks.
We grocery-shopped on our way back to the motel and Julie then walked down to the town Walmart to buy some other things we needed.
After lunch at the motel, Julie walked to the local laundromat to do our washing, while Dave did some admin and planning.
For dinner, we again visited the Mexican restaurant across the road and followed that with an early night. Back on the trail tomorrow.
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