August 20, 2008
Miles today - 67
Total Miles - 671
Elevation climbed today - 1717 feet
Elevation at Swan Lake - 3126 feet
Ride time - 5 hours 36 minutes
Average speed - 11.8 mph
We left West Glacier early this morning. The goal was to ride to Columbia Falls and eat a hearty breakfast then push on to Swan Lake. The route map put us on quiet roads and traveling was nice until the rains started about four miles from Columbia Falls; we arrived at the local cafe pretty wet. The waitress offered us a dryer for our clothes.
During our breakfast the rain let up however about an hour after leaving Columbia Falls the rains started again and it did not stop during our ride to Swan Lake. It was was coming down hard but the temp was about 62f so it was too bad.
After arriving at Swan Lake we set up our tents in the rain. The local trading post has a laundry facility so we were able to dry out our clothes for tomorrow's ride - rain is predicated here in Big Sky country.
On route we had stopped to get a coffee and to get out of the elements at a gas station cafe and met a father and son from Wisconsin who were motor-biking for three weeks. They had traveled over 5500 miles thus far and were just heading home. They had some very interesting adventures during their travels. They had summited Logan's Pass on Going-to-the-sun road yesterday about 4 hours after we had and they got caught in the big storm that went through Glacier NP. They waited the storm out for a couple hours to let it subside.
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