Sunday 3 June - Riding the high plains of Wyoming

Walden - Saratoga, Wyoming

69 miles
5 hours and 37 minutes in the saddle
27 mph max speed
12.1 mph average speed

We entered Wyoming after 22 miles. The scenery continues to be beautiful, with snow capped mountains visible no matter where you look. The mornings are crisp and clear and cold, we have been wearing all our clothes to stay warm. The weather is changeable here, and thunderstorms build in the afternoon over the mountain ranges. Storms are great to watch from a safe distance. Thankfully the storms always seem to be gathering to the south.

We have met another TransAm'er today and had a brief chat before we headed in opposite directions. We have yet again suffered strong headwinds. We think we are a bit unlucky because the prevailing winds in this area are westerlies and we have had northerly winds ever since we turned north several days ago.

Before we left Walden one of the locals offered us some riding advice. He asked us if we had ever been to Wyoming before, which we said we hadn't. He then said with a grim look on his face that we would soon see what it was like. I asked him if it would be a bit like the flat Kansas plains, to which he responded that he thought Kansas had some hills. We suspect he had never travelled outside Colorado.