October 1st
121km (929m vertical)
Tough ride as we faced a steady headwind and a gradual incline all day. The scenery was unending flat desert...which failed to provide any much needed distraction. It was dull. We got a brief reprieve after lunch with a short up and down across a rocky mountain finger, but we were soon rolling quickly back into the desert.
15km or so from camp the landscape changed dramatically as we rode into an endless maze of rocky hills, walls and crevasses. All of the tiny green desert weeds disappeared, and it felt like we were riding across the moon.
Camp tonight is in the middle of a particularly wind-prone crack in the earth. The surface was too rocky to use my tent pegs, so I piled rocks around my tent to weigh it down. Even so, the tent (which was full of all my stuff) blew over as I ate dinner. I piled more and larger rocks and hope to make it through the night without becoming a kite.
Desert with a finger of mountain for us to cross:
Cycling through the moonscape:
Not sure what that sign was supposed to warn me about:
Camp in the middle of a small rocky valley:
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