Beautiful Utah

September 3rd/09 - Moutainview RV Park
Wellington, Utah
Mileage: 102.378 km
Total mileage: 1903 km
Ride time: 4:42 hrs

Started out this morning climbing and climbed for approximately 40 km to Soldier Summit (7,477 ft.) Long steady grade, slow going. Deby is becoming a much stronger rider now.

The scenery along the ride today was remarkable. Strange rock formation throughout the valley almost like you are on a different planet. Some of the rocks and talus slopes range from white, to dark green, light green, to orange and red. Large junipers grow everywhere along with the bush type pine that I described earlier. The brush is dense, but not so dense that you couldn't walk anywhere in these hills that you choose.

Hwy 6 SE is busy. Probably the busiest hwy we have been on yet. This along with the rumble strips that the engineers have chosen to destroy the shoulders with made the riding a little hectic.

Had a flat rear tire even with the impenetrable Slime liner and the tube full of Slime which is supposed to plug holes. I pumped it up like you're supposed to do, to let the Slime find the hole. I rode for another 1/4 mile and it was flat again. I took the tire off and there was green goo everywhere. I patched the tube like I wasn't supposed to have to do and went on. Another 1/4 mile and psst - psst - psst - slime hissing out like a fire hydrant. New hole. I took the tire off. Shit everywhere. I put in a new tube. No Slime this time and we were on our way. The old tube resembled a gooey eel and was unfixable. The myth has been busted, Slime doesn't work.

From the top of Soldier pass it was downhill all the way to Price and then Wellington. We worked for that stretch.

Deby and I are starting to ride very well together. She is starting to figure this riding thing out.