Cold weather and LOTS of climbing in Costa Rica

So after spending the night in San Jose we got up and rode for 4 hours into the mountains and it got cold! It rained on us and after our ride I end up wearing my smartwool base layers, pants, jacket, beanie, wool socks-the works. We pulled off at a convenience store some 3500ft up into the mountains and a guy made us coffee and told us we could stay in his guest house.
STOKED. Then he invited us in to have dinner with his family. We had rice, beans, tortillas, and some jamon. It was amazing. We told him about our ride4water and we became friends with Oscar and his familia. We slept well after another 3500 ft of climbing.

We arose today and it was cold with fog everywhere. We got going and we rode an epic climb today. 12 miles with 3000ft of climbing. That ranks up there with one if the toughest of this entire trip. Think Colorado Rockies but with lush tropical landscape. It was epic.




Some goats

Epic waterfall



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