With 64 miles and nearly 4,000 feet of climbing behind her, Cindy Moore had just 16 more miles of pedaling Monday to complete day two of the six-day Tour de Wyoming. 

With the sun blazing and temperatures creeping into the 90s, she scanned the aid station for a snack that would both fortify and refresh. 

Under a pop-up tent in the Johnny Behind the Rocks trailhead parking lot, volunteers hustled to nourish the 250 riders making their way from Riverton to Lander — the long way up and over Beaver Rim and through Sweetwater Junction. One volunteer laid out bananas, another sliced up fresh Colorado peaches, while another lathered white bread with peanut butter and jelly — rider’s choice, grape or strawberry.

Alan and Cindy Moore, who both serve on the Tour de Wyoming planning committee, pose in cycling jerseys from past years. (Tennessee Watson/WyoFile)

Moore eyed a jar of whole kosher dills and ordered up a sliced pickle and peanut butter sandwich. On her 19th Tour de Wyoming — the group biking experience that’s traversed a different part of Wyoming each summer for 27 years — she has her aid-station preferences dialed. 

Teri Boundy and Brad Singer, who traveled out from Wisconsin for their 5th tour, popped a few pieces of peach. 

Tour de Wyoming participants Teri Boundy and Brad Singer turn into the Johnny Behind the Rocks trailhead parking lot. (Tennessee Watson/WyoFile)

They ripen up perfectly, moving from aid station to aid station on the 400-mile route in the back of a U-Haul trailer, said Tour de Wyoming Director Amber Travsky. 

The 27th Tour de Wyoming — a.k.a the “Wind River Ramble” — started Sunday in Riverton with a loop through the Wind River Reservation, then over to Lander, up Sinks Canyon, out to Dubois and back to Lander before returning today to Riverton.

Tennessee Jane Watson is WyoFile's deputy managing editor. She was a 2020 Nieman Abrams Fellow for Local Investigative Journalism and Wyoming Public Radio's education reporter. She lives in Laramie. Contact...

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  1. Thanks for giving a small glimpse to the Tour de Wyoming! Our family has been participating in the TDW since 2004. Amber and her committee does a phenomenal job putting this one of a kind bike tour year after year that brings together people from all over Wyoming, the US and various parts of the world. This week long ride has taken us to all corners of Wyoming (and some neighboring states) and we’ve had the pleasure the spend time in so many places most people just drive through. We’ve also gotten to know people from all walks of life, both cyclists and town residents, in a way you can only do when you slow down and actually get to talk to each other. We have so many wonderful towns and people in Wyoming – I hope more people slow down and take the time to visit them!

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