Cable car over a deep gorge between Cusua & Bilbao

Julie & I were gloating about our good luck in finding that we could take the short route to Riobamba on a traffic-free road after all.  We met two local women getting off at the washed-out-by-mudflow intersection who said that we could get through on bikes.  We soon found out why the traffic was so light.  After 5km uphill the road ends at a deep gorge with no bridge.  There is an untended cable car that looks so dangerous that even the locals haven’t used it for a while.  The basket is not big enough for a bike; and if we tried lashing bikes under basket, might have lost bikes or lives.  So we turned around midday and continued on one of our biggest climbs yet.

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