Miles 72
Total Miles 820
First and explanation on the title. We have previously ridden Eureka to West Glacier, so in the interest of time, Tim and I decided to skip that part of the ride. It is beautiful country that you pass through on it, but the road is very busy and I was excited to get a day ahead. So the trail is not broken on getting across the US. Just using more trips than this one.
We took off early this morning, again. We did it because of the mileage we had to cover today and it was supposed to get pretty warm. The entire ride was quite free of vehicles today. It was nice. We rode 15 beginning miles east of Libby on a quiet road that we were passed by one vehicle the entire time. We then rode on the eastern side of Lake Koocanusa for 50 miles. The road had many climbs and descents as it followed the lake and dropped as creeks emptied into the lake and climbed back up the side of the lake again and again. We ended up climbing like 3,200 ft all together. It was a nice ride and very pretty. We lucked out as the wind was at our back this afternoon. It did get hot. We finished riding our miles about 2:30 and by that time it was 90 degrees. I ran out of water as well. When we got to Eureka, the first place I headed was for the service station to get a Gatorade. 😋 I did hit 40 mph going down one of the hills today. Wind was just right to get it done.
We are in West Glacier tonight and the campground is packed. This RV park has to have over 100 spots and they charged us $125 for the space for one night. I guess that is what you can do when so many people are RVing. This is the place that many take the “Going to the Sun Road” up through Glacier National Park, but we are going to go to the south and miss the park completely. Again, we have ridden through the park on another trip and the pass to get through is still closed because of snow.
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