Great Divide Mountain Bike Route (Jackson to Rawlins)

The colours are changing - it's time to head south!

Togwotee Pass was our highest crossing of the Continental Divide yet and the 8th crossing so far!

Wind River Lake and Brooks Lake in the Shoshone National Forest. It looks just like Switzerland!

It seems that the nice campgrounds with lots of sites, food storage boxes, water pumps and picnic tables have disappeared. We have to camp with less and less comfort. This site was our least favourite so far, but it was getting late.

The trail became a bit rough descending into Pinedale, which is a typical Wyoming cowboy town with a brewery (yet again!) serving great food.

Leaving Pinedale towards the Bridger Wilderness, which is stunning! The Wind River Mountains provide a constant background.

Fancy not giving us access to the only water source of the day! Apparently, these signs have something to do with limiting the land owner's liability.

Our camping spot in a cow paddock. It was lovely, but the creek was unappealing and the cows seemed to be attracted to our yellow tent.

South Pass was (and still is) an important east-west crossing of the divide. The town, however, is a well preserved ghost town.

Atlantic City WY is very different from its namesake in New Jersey!

The Wyoming Basin is so empty that they used the space on the map for the north arrow! And we rode straight through the middle of it! There are only two water sources (both not very appealing for drinking), hence everybody camped in the same locations.

Pronghorns were omnipresent and relying on the same water sources, here at A&M Reservoir early in the morning.

The first cactus - and I almost sat on it!

The only other human presence in the basin (other than crazy cyclists) are oil and gas companies.

Over 100 miles of flat nothing! We were glad to arrive at Rawlins!