September 17, 2015
SAN ISABEL NATIONAL FOREST, CO It was cold this morning but the weather was great all day. I made a bunch of climbs and the scenery is pretty impressive all around. The tread was is good condition until I passed over the last peak, where it got a bit thin and hard to follow Along the way there was the Chalk River and Alpine Tunnel. There was a railroad that went through here and there were apparently several disasters that occurred. Looking at the mass of rock I saw it was hard to imagine people hand digging a train tunnel…