Sergeants to cotopaxi... 7/19
Started the day with a mountain. It took us 3 hours to get to the top of
monarch pass, 10 miles. We went on a gondola that you can ride from
the pass to the peak to gaze at Colorado's mountains. We spotted pike's
peak.
Then, the descent from monarch's pass gave us 10 fast miles that we completed in 20 minutes.
Then, we went to cotopaxi. Along the way, we stopped at the Arkansas River, saw rafters.
The ride to Cotopaxi or K-pax, was windy and hot and we had little to no shoulder on the road at times.
We stopped at cotopaxi and saved the last long ascent for another day.
