Wednesday Aug 17th, 260km
Today’s Highlights.
Early morning camp breakdown, a forest fire, awesome forest roads, a knarly mountain pass, an old fire tower at 8,000 ft, bright sunny day, ghost towns, hours of therapeutic riding…
Ok so the mileage was not great….we did 50km by 9:00 but the next 50 took us until 11am. We had a great ride in the morning, stopping at Montana’s for lunch at noon, yes, Montana’s in Montana. But it was a proprietary restaurant and was fantastic. After lunch we were back on the trail but the GPS kept leading us down the wrong trail and we did a lot of back tracking. No big deal but we did not make a lot of head way south. We did take our first divide pass ride and it went fairly smoothly…the uphill was a bit of a challenge but the downhill was easy,...just what we wanted with no back brake.
Tonight we are in a Super 8…great rates with CAA…. and rags to wipe down the bikes. Dinner at the pub next door, and finally the beer Mike has been talking about all day. We were thoroughly entertained by the pictures and videos of the day. Very tired as it was another long day. Looking forward to more ghost towns and camping in the backcountry.
MnM Over and Out for Wednesday August 17, 2011.
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