Erik calls from Pinedale

Hi it’s Erik Lobeck calling in from Pinedale.  I survived Union Pass; barely I was fortunate enough to find a cabin up there to spend the night in with a wood stove.  It was pounding rain and icy cold wet muck so I pretty much spent 5 hours today peddling thru wet muck then a rancher decided to drive his cattle up the trail in the wet muck so that made for really slow going this morning pretty much 3 miles an hour for a long time and then I have been battling head winds. So today was really tough. The ligament behind my right knee has been giving me some agony we will have to see I’ve been toughing that out for 2 days. But I am going to ride a little bit more and if it doesn’t get any better I just might take a lesser mileage day and try to bring it back to life.  So the wet mucky weather has been the negative highlight of the day it really would be nice if that would go away. I hope the winds are going to be in my favor in terms of riding thru the basin. We’ll see when we attack that.  I’ll call from the other side.  OK Bye