Day: 058
Date: Wednesday, 03 July 2024
Start: Officers Gulch
Finish: Dillon
Daily Kilometres: 17.3
GPX Track: Click here for Julie’s Strava & Photos
Total Kilometres: 1701.3
Weather: Cold and clear early, then sunny and warm.
Accommodation: Motel
Nutrition:
Breakfast: Breakfast burritos
Lunch: Nachos/Toasted chicken ranch sub
Dinner: Hamburgers & fries, cheesecake & icecream.
Aches: Nothing reported.
Highlight: Having an unplanned (two days ago) easy day of low kilometres and relatively flat interesting and scenic walking. (We only became aware of an “alternate” route following bike paths two days ago that saved time and effort.)
Lowlight: Nothing in particular.
Pictures: Click here
Map and Position: Click here for Google Map
Journal:
We both had a fairly sleepless night. The nearby I-70 freeway was very busy all night, especially with 18-wheelers using their engine brakes down the hill. Consequently, we were both ready to go when the alarm went off and were hiking by 6am.
It was a very cold morning with an icy breeze and the bike path we continued to follow was in the shade of the high surrounding mountains for the first hour. However, the cold also kept bike path users in bed and we had the path to ourselves. The mountain gorge scenery, with the rushing Tenmile Creek beside us, kept us interested and the time passed quickly.
By 7:30am we were walking down the main street of the attractive little town of Frisco. Early risers were hitting the cafes and city workers were preparing for a 4th of July parade tomorrow morning. American flags were everywhere.
On the other side of town we stopped in at a Taco Belle for breakfast before joining another bike path that followed the western shore of the beautiful Dillon Reservoir, alive with boaters and backed by partly snow-covered mountains. It was now warm and sunny and the path was very busy with cyclists and walkers. Being a holiday week, no doubt many of them were vacationers. It was good to see so many people out enjoying themselves.
After crossing the reservoir wall, we descended into the busy little town of Dillon where we had booked a motel room. Even though it was only 11:30am, and check-in time was 4pm, we tried our luck, presenting as two tired hikers badly in need of a shower, and the friendly receptionist found us a room. We were very happy.
After showers and some handwashing of clothes, we went to a nearby cafe for lunch and then did a small amount of shopping. Given it's only two days to our next town, we didn't need much.
Back at the motel we had a quiet afternoon before getting take-out dinner and having an early night.
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