We awoke to sun…..!
Happy not to be packing up in the rain we set off nice & early although it was not raining - it was very cold & both of us had cold fingers & toes.
The guide book suggested today would be quite difficult with 2 high climbs & a 7km section of extremely rough terrain.
We had completed the days 1st climb without really realising it & turned off to start the ‘steep’ climb of the day, to our surprise it was not steep at all but certainly steady… we knocked this out in record time stopping at the top for a lovely sunny lunch looking across to the mission mountains - The scenery was amazing.
The next section was to be the 7km stretch of rough terrain, this turned out to be a fun filled 7km of single track quite rough in places - but basically all ride able apart from 2 single slides - bear calling the whole way , we whopped our way down & coasted the final 12km into Seeley Lake.
Seeley lake is what we would describe as classic small town America. Nothing fancy.
The campsite was cheap with its own resident deer walking around.
Tomorrow we are hoping to do 2 days in 1 of the suggested guide book we are following(100km) & the same again the next day finishing in Helena - Montana’s state capital.
Will blog again in a of couple days.
DISTANCE: 58.6km
AVERAGE: 13.2km
RIDE TIME: 4.25hrs
ASCEND: 925mtrs
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2 comments:
Hi Guys,
enjoying so much following your trip, even in the rain.
Typical German questions:
How many days are you ahead schedule, you crazy Kiwis ?
How far is Klaus behind (that is his real name - becasue we know all the Germans)?
Did you offer him some Nutella ?
You would have made BFF.
Wish you sunshine all day long.
Dany and Elmar
Hey D & E,
Hope you guys are all settled back into NZ life again after your holiday?
Answers to your Q's:
We are 2 days ahead of the scheduled guide book we are following.
Yes we are Crazy!! (See Day 14's post - Never again!)
Klaus - is well ahead of us - probaly about 3 days ahead now from what we can make out from people who have spotted him - he must be riding big days!
No we did not offer him any Nutella - keeping that for ourselves!
We are already onto 3rd jar- you would be proud of us! Bagles & Nutella seem to be the lunch of choice for us!
Struggling to find Chocolate covered pretzels... boo! They have them covered in everything else (yoghurt, marshmellow!! 'I know' Yuk right!, Huckleberry coating!!) but not chocolate!
Later J&S
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