Miles 37 & 47.5
Total miles 280.8
It is kind of different that the descriptions on places, I am having to use campgrounds because we are not in any City or town. We had 28 miles of pretty easy flat riding today and then came time to start climbing Washington pass. It does a few ups and downs, but the summit is at 5,477 ft and we started at near 0. We made it up about a fourth of the way today and tomorrow we get to tackle the rest. :) When we climb mountains like that, I just settle into about a 4.5 mph pace and just spend some time.
You can see that there are two mileages for the day. We couldn’t get a campground where we wanted to finish (it is a weekend), so we were going to call Brandon about 10 miles prior to finishing. However, when we got up on the mountain we had no cell service for AT&T not Verizon. So when we got to the campground, I rode the 10 miles back to a small town and called Brandon. He came and picked me up and then we drove up the mountain and got Tim. We then drove back down to a campground about 15 miles of the one we stayed at last night. If we would have been on bikes and carrying our tents, we could have stayed, but it has been raining all afternoon, so still happy we have the RV.
The scenery has been gorgeous. We are riding along the Skagit River and they have have dams up the river making some beautiful lakes and the steep tree covered mountains are just so pretty. We rode all day in 50 degree weather. The skies were overcast and then when we finally arrived in camp at about 3:00 and it started raining and has been raining since. It is supposed to clear up tomorrow and actually get a little warmer.
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