81 miles in 8 hours – Max speed 37mph
I woke up in the morning and took advantage of my first free breakfast of the trip. The Best Western had one, and I was going to be damned if I wasn’t going to try to eat $95 worth of food. I think I came fairly close.
Anyway, after eating, I headed out and towards Ely. I knew that this was a tough day, both because of the length, 78 miles with no services, and because of the numerous mountain passes, four, including three over 7300 feet.
Once I got out on the road though, it was more of the same to start with. I had a pass immediately, and then had a fairly nice downhill before climbing up to the second, and smallest pass of the day.
Pass #1
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Pass #2
That is when I noticed something bad had rolled in.
Yukky Weather
The next little bit was spent playing ‘dodge the thunderstorm’, which I did pretty well.
Eventually I got back on the road and headed up the third pass, which is about halfway.
Stupid Mountains
On top of this pass I made sure to eat a decent sized snack and have a Gatorade to try to prevent me from falling apart at the end of the ride again. And I also noticed the weather was improving.
Pass #3
Blue skies!?
I continued on, and then reached my final pass, which is the tallest pass of the day, and of Nevada to this point.
Historical Marker
Pass #4 plus yucky clouds.
I noticed again that more storms were rolling in, and chugged hard down the hill to the town. It was a pretty cool town, but I didn’t get any pictures because I was staying on the far side of town and I was just trying not to get rained on going through the town. Though I just had to take one because I thought it was especially creepy.
Creepy.
I checked into a Motel 6 for the night, and did some laundry, and visited some stores and a bank. All in all a very productive night.
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