Monday 6/27 : Cody to Ucross
Thunderstorms predicted, and Bighorn Mountains with a 5500 ft. vertical, done in 10% grade for 10 miles made me decide to skip this part of the trip. I picked up a car at the Cody airport, with the intention of dropping it in Sheridan. When I got to the Sheridan airport, the sky looked like this:
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| Sketchy weather in Sheridan |
so I got the car for an extra day, to take me all the way to Gillette.
Tues 6/28 : The Inn at Ucross to Gillette, WY
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| Riding tall |
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| My guide |
Gillette is the coal mining capitol of the US, in the center of Wyoming's Power River Valley coal mining. This provide 35% of the nation's coal. Gillette only 3580 people in 1960. Now there are over 37,000. Over the past decade, Gillette expanded significantly. Now, however, with world energy prices down and coal in decline, the hotels are now running below 30% occupancy. The same thing that happened in Williston, ND, the epicenter of the Bakken shale oil activity.
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| A fine rotisserie lunch at the Coop in Gillette |
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