All's Well That Ends (Short of Antelope) Well(s)
It should be easy to infer from the title of this post that my adventure is at an end. I’ll get into the details below but I can summarize it by saying that while not making the border (Antelope Wells, NM) is a bit disappointing, it has been a great ride, literally and figuratively. No regrets. So, dear readers (are there any left?), when last I posted I identified two go-forward options. Keep riding and see how far we could get or make a push to get to an iconic point on the route. Arguably, we could have combined the two but circumstances conspired against that. We opted for the latter and made our way to Del Norte, a small town (almost all the towns you pass through on the route are small) that marks the start of the climb to Indiana Pass, the highest point on the trail at just shy of 12,000 feet. It made for a good goal. Since Indiana Pass is only about 500 feet higher than Boreas Pass, which we climbed a week or so ago, one (again, me) might assume that the ...
