We woke up in Torrey and were picked up by Stu who had kept our bikes in the back of his truck for the night. He took us to Sandstone a local place where we all got a great deal on huge pancakes, biscuits, and French toast, plus free coffee. Steve entertained the crowds with his discussion of the huge market for grass fed beef and we were enlightened about life as a forest fire fighter by Stu, Dan, and Chris. After finally getting packed up and all of our tires fixed we hit the road around 12:15 which was an unusually late start. We had a really nice ride relatively down hill through Capital Reef and we continued to crank it all the way to Hanksville. We ate our usual lunch of PB&J, cookies, ramen, and chewy bars and then headed to the gas station to fill up on water and wait out a storm that never really developed to rain. We set out on an ambitious ride to Green River which is 55 miles away at around 5:30. There is nothing along the way between these two "towns" but desert. We made it a little past half way when we decided to set up tent. We found a nice gulley to set up our tent so that no one would be able to see it going down the road at 65 mph. We ate a quick dinner of the usual and went to bed.
79 miles, a little rain, bunch of flats
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