More details to be added later. Below are some photos to hold you over.
0715MDT: wake; pack battery charger
0845: breakfast
1000: briefing. Target: Denver to Ft Morgan/Sterling
1209: MD636 issued: Supercell tornado risk with 1-2 storms! (http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/md0636.html)
1215-1230: dpt Limon (grab-n-go lunch) westbound on I-70
1358: MD640 issued: increasing tornado threat for Denver metro! (http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/md0640.html)
1617: MD644 issued (Continuing threat) (http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/md0644.html)
____: We exit C-470 into the SE Denver suburbs for a pit stop and a break to check the increasingly threatening skies.
____: We continue to watch the skies. It looks like a tornado could drop onto a heavily populated area any minute.
(“Please Mr. Mesocyclone, move away from town and don’t hurt anybody!”)
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EOD – Rodeway Inn, Stratton, CO (adjacent Claremont Inn & Winery) – BY FAR, the nicest place we stayed since leaving OKC! 🙂
| Start | Ogallala, NE |
| Finish | Stratton, CO |
| Route | I-80, CO-60,I-70,US30, backroads |
| Miles | ??? |
