DVIDS - News - Fort Carson Soldiers tackle brutal Beartooth Challenge on bicycles
11 ARLINGTON, Va. — It's called the Beartooth Challenge, and if you think that sounds grueling, you'd be right. But even a pounding snowstorm at nearly 11,000 feet couldn't stop Soldiers from the Fort Carson Soldier Recovery Unit in Colorado, who cycled over Beartooth Pass near the border between Montana and Wyoming this past fall. The Beartooth Highway is a 68.7-mile-long road that meanders along the northeast edge of Yellowstone National Park. The direction of the road changes not just from north to south and back again, but also vertically: over one 12-mile stretch, the e...
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