After a late night , but an awesome sleep we awoke to the sound of bloody noisy crows crowing & squirrels squeaking (they are quite loud) we headed off, starting the day with a healthy 4km climb. Half way up Scott spotted our days prey - THE GERMAN. We had been told by the GDMBR cycle tourist we had seen on day 1 that he was in front of us.
After the climb we headed along a nice paved road passing a huge coal mine before turning onto another gravel road which we followed for the next 25km (calling "Hey Bear" & ringing our bells the whole way).
About 5kms along the gravel road we finally caught the German. We had a quick chat, he was a man of few words (Doesn't seem to know Dany, Elmar or Doris? even through we described you? :-)
We continued to Sparwood where we stopped for lunch with our new German friend 'Clas'
We went our separate ways after lunch as he was making a phone call (maybe to find out if his parents knew D,E or D?)
The day continued for another 30km on paved road just about all down hill (although a head wind!!) to Fernie where we are are tonight.
We managed to finish the day at 2:30pm in time to do some washing, get it hung out & for today's thunder storm to roll in & soak our washing - typical.
Just back from Dinner at Boston Pizza - this is becoming our restaurant of choice when dining out, we chose the salad not the fries to go with our pizza.
DISTANCE:82.28km
AVERAGE SPEED: 17.9km
RIDE TIME: 4.36hours
ASCEND:480mtrs
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Don't all Germans know each other like us Kiwis?? :o) Like the blog so far - very humerous. Hope your taking photos of the moose and squirrels. Cute! Bring one home for me.
Millie has bonded well with Mike and I. Actually won't leave us alone! Think she likes being the boss with no dogs.
Nicole
Eat the goddamn fries won't ya, ya health freaks.
I still maintain you're mental. Seriously sounds like an amazing trip already. Blog is brilliant, keep it up.
Keep your bum on the seat Scotty!
(From the couch potato)
Almost as dangerous as riding a bike in Chc!
Came across this on Radio NZ Drama of all places http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/drama/book_readings/danceswithmarmots
About a kiwi fireman who hiked the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada (sure you will be eyeing that one up too). Online book though not sure if you can listen outside NZ. V funny.
He practised an interesting theory about bear deterance when camped. You evidently have to surround your tent (the ground outside, of course!) with urine - presumably the bigger the tent the faster you have to run while doing this! Sort of like laying your scent. Not sure how practical or easy this is, especially after a long hot day in the saddle. You might have to hold back for some hours before you get to camp.
He never said how well this worked but I don't think he had any more bears stopping to say "hi". Thought it might be worth a try.
As for meeting bears en route I haven't come across any better advice other than what your are already doing. You wouldn't have the time to....!!
Impressive speed and impressive blog.
Smash
Great read Jo and Scott really enjoying your blog I am very jealous its a real adventure, we are missing you at cards night Scott you seemed to scoff the chips down there no probs... how do the pizzas compare to my $2.89 new world uncle Burnsy specials?
Wow those bears sound scary now that would get me going real quick
take care
Burnsy.
great to hear all going well albeit with a few scares along the way look forward to seeing pics and more progress have fun, marty
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