CT day by day Initial Plan
Saturday July 21st
Bike as far as can
Day 1: July 22 Sunday FOOD: 3 Lunches, 2 Dinners, 2 Breakfasts
(40.5 miles 7,287’)
Waterton Canyon (or bighorn sheep rest area~save 6.2 miles)
Section 1 (16.8) 2830’
No water from mile 8 for next 7.6 miles (fill up at bear creek)
Section 2 (11.5) 2482’
No water for next 12.7 miles (fill up south platte river) until creek before shingle mills TH
Section 3 (12.2) 1975’
Water wellington lake
Good camping at mile 11.9 (after gun club)
Day 2: July 23 Monday
bike around section 4 (70 miles )
Lunch at stage coach restaurant --Good campsite at end (long gulch)
Day 3: July 24 Tuesday
Rock creek to end of section 5 (6.6)
Kenosha Pass --Section 6 (32.7) 5,196’
**RE-SUPPLY IN BRECK FOOD: Buy dinner Day-3, 2 breakfast, 2 lunches, 1 Dinner
Day 4: July 25 Wednesday
Section 7 (12.8) 3674’
Section 8 (25.4) 4417’
Day 5: July 26 thursday
Bike Detour (21.5 miles)
**Re-supply Leadville FOOD: Eat lunch, 1 Breakfast, 1 Lunch, 1 Dinner
Section 11 (21.5) 2910’
Camp end of section 11 at clear creek campground? or ride into Buena Vista for dinner and hotel?
Day 6: July 27 Friday
Bike Detour (26.5 miles)
**Re-supply in Buena Vista (19.1 miles in to detour) FOOD: EAT dinner (possible Hotel) 4 breakfast, 4 lunch, 4 dinner, GAS
South cottonwood road to section 14 (13.5) -pass Mount Princeton hot springs resort while on 5.7 mile road detour
Could bike into Section 14 until we got to water at the 6.7 mile mark of brown creek and campsites at ~7.0 miles in just past brown creek (46.7 mile day but most on road)
No water from Chalk creek for next 6.7 miles until brown creek
OR bike all the way to Monarch Pass for the hotel and food (53 miles with 26.5+on road)
Day 7: July 28 Saturday
Section 14 (20.4) 3748’
bike to Monarch pass, eat, and take DH to skip foose creek HAB.
Monarch Crest bike trail (14.5) 1641’ to connect with section 15 8.6 miles in
*Section 15 (14.3) 5.7 miles
Lots of water. Biking along creek. Last water at Marshall pass (before the road up to Marshall pass trailhead) near restrooms and camping
Monarch crest trail (14.5) 1641’ Food T-Sat 6-9pm
Section 16 (15.2) 3184’
Water down silver creek trail (L) about ¼ mile, stay ® for CT
No water for 11.3 miles to Tank 7 creek.
No water for 11 miles south at Baldy Lake
Day 8: July 29 Sunday
Section 17 (20.4) 2668’
No water for 6 miles until Baldy lake
No water for next 22.2 miles south
Section 18 to bike detour (12.2) 1114’
No water for 10 miles until Los creek
Bike detour 55.6 miles
Day 9: July 30 Monday
Bike detour
Section 22 (17.2) 3581’
Friends of CT yurt ~9miles in. Will run out of water
Section 23 (15.9) 3346’
Can drop down pole creek and bike up stony pass rd to skip hike a bikes
Bike detour (17.3 miles) 1871’
**Re-supply in Silverton FOOD: Eat Dinner,
Day 10: July 31 Tuesday
Section 25 (20.9)1877’ +1409
Section 26 (10.9) 1502’
No water after 7 miles in at straight creek for next 21.6 miles
Day 11: Aug 1 Wednesday
Section 27 (20.6)3883’
No water for 19 miles until taylor lake
Will run out of water
Section 28 (21.5) 1924’
No camping last 16 miles( after gudys rest)
​
​
​
***Note: Actually took us 13 days