Tuesday 17/5/05

Left Telluride late after catching an expensive breakfast from yet another miserable waitress. Rode to the top of Lizard Head Pass at 10,222ft. Heres the info sign at the top - everyone likes proof!

Heres a photo looking over to the snow capped mountains that sit either side of the lizard head pass, it was so cold that the lakes up there were frozen solid!

If we had stayed at Placerville that night like we had originally planned, then it would have been a much bigger climb. But as it was Telluride was at 9,000ft already so it wasn't to far to the top. Climbed way above the snow line to the top and then followed the Dolores river for 40 miles downhill to Dolores. We were gonna get lunch in a Rico on the way down but EVERYTHING in the whole town was shut. So we rode on to Stoner which had a great cafe. Outside the cafe they had hummingbird feeders which attracted dozens of them, it was amazing to watch them: