June 11, 2015 – The day started with a nice weather to ride in the Rocky’s.

Route of day 6 from Estes Park to Carbondale

Leaving early has the benefit that nobody is around, except that one person to take picture from me!

And then it got cold and freezing and lots of snow on the mountain pass.

Still lots of snow on top of mountain pass and cold!

After I got down, I saw a Cafe in the middle of no where.  Hot breakfast is the best thing now.

Cafe place in the middle of no where but good breakfast.

What is about the train and train tracks that is always amusing!  I didn’t see train to go through it though.

The weather in the mountains that I’m going to, does not look good 🙁  These are panoramic photos, behind my route is blue sky with little cloud and and in front where I’m going is dark scary clouds.

And here is the weather when I got to mountain pass, cold and cloudy and lots of snow again.

Independence pass, 12095ft / 3686m

I got to ride some dirt road and then it got rainy and a lot of mess.

got dirty after riding in rain in a dirt road

As soon as I got to civilization, it was time for cleanup.

Time to wash the bike

Time to wash the bike

some more riding.

Later on I got a lot of rain and I had to go through a heavy rain for more than an hour just to get to camp site.  But nice campsite this time.  A cabin that had shower, washroom and kitchen so I didn’t have to leave the cabin until morning.

Water was so high and close to cabin that I was worry all night if it will come higher and flood the cabin.

Day 6: 514km, but 14 hours from camp site to camp site, very tiring day.