We peddle up to the post office and then down for breakfast. We try to find the Indian bathtubs but they are not down by the river. We break camp and Peggy rides her bike out to their trail head then we hike up to these rock formations that have depressions worked into them by the elements.
We head north through the Great Divide Basin. This is where the continental divide splits and creates a basin 100 miles long and 40 miles wide. There's very little rain here, but it wouldn't escape the basin anyway. Our first pass is at 7,714 feet and the second pass is 6,720 feet. Neither have names but the basin between them is pretty flat, nothing but sagebrush and sand. There is a feature here called Flat Lake.
We turn off the main road and drive 11 dusty miles up into Green Mountain. We take a primitive forest service campsite called Cottonwood Creek that only costs three dollars. They call this Green Mountain because it's the only one with trees.
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| Mitch peddling to the post office. |
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| Taking a break after that long, hot, dusty hike. |
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| Almost there. |
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| Looks like a bathtub. |
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| Fits like a bathtub. |
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| Hard to bath without water. Poudre, if you jump in how will you get out? |
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| 'Aarf, aarf,' how do I get out? |
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| Time to run before someone wants to give me a bath. |
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| Beautiful green rock lichen photobombed by Mitch, |
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| This is called 'Split Rock' because of the splits in the rocks. |
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