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Well, what to say about three cold days..a mile high?

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Yes, at over 5000' it got cold, really cold, so cold that water started to condensate on the inside of the tent, froze my water bottles, but I'm warm now. True it was a 60 minute tube change this morning, one more little gremlin of a bit of metal worked it's way into the trailer tube.  It's been working so well that the old tube I put in there as a liner had almost fused to the tire, so I put another old tube in there as well after plunking out the 1/4" piece of metal. What was really hard was only getting to do one thing at a time before I had to put my hands into my pockets.  Then a nice trucker lady stopped and I was able to warm my hands on her tires, got it done and down the road I am, here in Ash Fork, Az, for a couple of days of rest. And, well, I had another spoke snap on me, but this shouldn't be too hard to fix as I remembered to bring an extra spoke with me.  Seems the spoke got bent during the Hop past LA to Barstow when it was in the truck.  So ...