Ennis to West Yellowstone. 116.73km. 970m. 6h23 riding After a good night’s sleep at our Warmshowers host’s house, she was absent but gave us the use of her house anyway It was a long ride that shouldn’t have been too hard if we didn’t have the 30km/h head wind. That made the ride a real…
Dillon to Ennis. 112.15km. 847m ascent. 5:19 riding Great day with just one steep climb of 5km at 7-8% 🥵 The clouds were low as we set off from the hostel but by 11:00 they were high up again and our view was unimpaired 😊 We set off with a good tail wind and covered…
Wisdom to Dillon. 113.63km. 804m ascent. 5h30 ride time What a day! Huge skies, cold but clear and sunny ☀️ We had 2 climbs and another highest peak at 2,243m on the Big Hole pass and we have been maintaining altitude above 1600m for several days now The views were breathtaking with snow covered mountains…
Darby to Wisdom. 93km 1,192m ascent Today we left our Warmshowers host Curtis to go over the Chief Joseph pass. Our highest pass so far at 2,216m The first 2 hours were gentle climbing to Sula where we had a last coffee (also the last chance to top up on water and food before Wisdom)…
Missoula to Darby 96km. 490m ascent An easy and not particularly inspiring ride today, at least until we got onto the old Darby road after ~65km of riding a tarred but rough cycle track next to Highway 93 We picnicked off the highway with provisions bought on the road At least today we had no…
Lochsa to Missoula 105km. 710m ascent Today started again with a climb this time up to 1600m so our highest peak so far Unfortunately the views were nothing to write about as everything was covered by clouds. It was cold but at least dry. After a warmup and some coffee it was downhill for the…
106km. 717m ascent Another grotty day ahead. Although it didn’t start raining immediately it did start earlier than forecast 😓 Today was 1 long ride upstream and surprisingly hard 105km with no chance to freewheel. Even though the grade was seldom greater than 2% it was a slog The biggest compensation was the fantastic rapids…
108km. 1209m ascent Our biggest climb so far. Straight out of White Bird and up the old 95 for 873m with no flat road for 2.5 hrs 😅 Rich did end up with a goat head in his tyre but after pulling it out the tube self sealed and we were quickly back to climbing…
We have been following the Little Salmon River which runs into the Salmon River These are 2 of the so called ‘free flowing’ rivers left in the State of Idaho A free flowing river is one that has no dams on it. We are also riding the Highway 95 which happens to be the only…
It has become painfully obvious that I am carrying too much weight and am too slow up the hills As the climbs here are almost always long, much longer than we are used to in Belgium, it has been slowing our progress somewhat. Luckily Rich also wanted to dump some stuff he offered to send…