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Saturday 24th July 2004

bikers are massing in kremmlingFrom Breckenridge Fireside Inn to the Old Volunteer Firestation, Kremmling - only 50 miles! After a nice bowl of Hot Oats at the Fireside Inn (which, though pricey for cycle tourists, is comfy), we headed off a short distance to tinker with our bikes. Stopping on the cycle path down the valley to Frisco we noted the huge number of cyclists - Saturday morning is the time to do some cycling round here, clearly. Headed down, eventually to Frisco, then Silverthorne. We got a bit lost getting to Silverthorne and found ourselves briefly but alarmingly on an Interstate - which we got off as quickly as possible. Then a bit of a headwind slowed our progress, after lunch in silverthorne, down the valley to Kremmling. Eventually rolled into Kremmling and discovered Mark and Wanda, who we'd last seen a couple of weeks ago, shopping in the grocery store. They were at the local motel. We set up camp for free at the Old Volunteer Fire Station. Three mountain bikers turned up - doing the Great Divide Mountain Bike route. All teachers - and nice characters. John, Mike and Mark (I think! - correct me if you are these bikers and I've got it wrong). Mark, of the mountain bikers, commented on the way debt finances the second home and huge RV industries. Mark and Wanda met us in the highly recommended Saloon Bar - where they have a decent range of real ales (microbrews, as they say here). The photo shows a bikers get together in the main street of Kremmling. A remarkable number of muscley legs on display! The people are Mike, Mark, Mark (of Mark and Wanda), John, Wanda, Guy. Notice Guy's trademark carrier bag (from Waterstones - a British Bookshop chain)!

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