Miles 54.4
Total Miles 517.6
It was a cold night and cold this morning. There was a pretty thick fog first thing this morning, but it burned off pretty quickly. We started climbing as soon as we took off this morning. We knew it was coming and we have had plenty of climbing training, so we just settled in and climbed. It took about 3 hours when we went over the top of Sherman Pass at 5,575 feet. Number 4 of 4 summits we have climbed in the last 4 days. It’s not like the climbing is over, but no more mountains to this high in the
See those 4 summits. That was our last 4 days. Each line is 1,000 ft.
Not a lot to write about. After climbing, we had the best downhill ride we have had over the last 4 days. The road dropped 4,000 ft to where we are now and we didn’t have headwinds to hinder the drop. It lasted for about 15 miles and was fun to ride. There was some logging going on by the side of the road that they were stopping traffic while the trees were cut down and then the stopped cutting for a bit and let the traffic through. It was a massive machine doing the cutting. Kind of like an excavator with a rotary blade on the end. I wish I could have gotten a picture.
We passed over the Columbia river today and are in Colville, WA. We are staying at some fair grounds here. The crazy thing about where we are staying is, 9 years ago, I went on a ride with Tim and Nancy on the Selkirk loop with Kaitlin, my daughter. We stayed at this same campground we are in tonight. It feels weird to be back here again. I wish I had more to write, but there was just not much of interest that happened today.
The Columbia and the bridge we crossed over on.
Tim and me on the top!!
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