Away from Lima we had a long flat day of riding ahead it was another lovely blue sky Montana day as we set out.
After stopping at the service station/ supermarket to fill up the food pannier we headed into the wild west (actually east) the day was described as being a long but flat day so we thought we had a day of quite
easy riding ahead, this kind of was the case but the roads traveled were quite rough alot of washboards & alot of updulating the entire day.
the sun was extremely hot & we were riding down roads completely void of tress, such a contrast to northern Montana, where all we saw were tress!
We were riding through ranch country which Jo found especially intresting as there was alot of hay making & farm work going on around us (it appears horses have been replaced by 4 wheel quads in cowboy country these days!)
The day was fairly uneventful & we make good time arriving at the campground early arvo, we had stopped on the way to the campground at the ranger station to check if there was anything we needed to know & to fill up water bottles - the rangers over here are so helpful & very informative we spent a bit of time chatting before going back out into the heat to finish the day.
The campground was next to a lake & located in a wildlife refuge (although you can still hunt??)
the campground had a lovely water spring which we took good advantage off re hydrating.
Chatted to another cycle tourist who arrived just after us but was heading back to Lima & told us we had inspired him to do it in 1 day, he had panned to do it in 2.
Apparently the ranger told us that the huge holes that were dug in the middle of the road that we had seen during the day was made from Badgers & that the chances of seeing a Badger at the campground was high - but alas we did not see any! boo.
DISTANCE: 92.2km
AVERAGE: 18.1km
RIDE TIME: 5.05hrs
ASCEND: 525mtrs
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