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Day 4 - Race Across America

 

 

Yesterday, my dad went through the very challenging Wolf Creek Pass, whose summit is the highest point of RAAM. Patrick told me in an interview that he thought he was going to climb it in 2 hours. His guessing was off, he reached the summit in 1 hour 20 minutes! The crew was very surprised and delighted by this. At Wolf Creek Pass, we had the pleasure to meet Michelle Granges, a RAAM finisher in 1990, and who was named rookie of the year after finishing third overall. Everyone took pictures and got signed cards. After she and her husband left, Patrick started down Wolf Creek towards South Fork, Colorado. The plan was to go to Alamosa, the Time Station after South Fork, and get Patrick something hot to eat, like pasta or hot soup. But he got very cold and so we had to stop at South Fork to get him something to eat. The Time Station, a gas station, only had hot chocolate and hamburgers, not soup, so Patrick had to drink and eat what was there.

 

Estelle