Distance ridden today - 62 miles
Total Distance - 112 miles
Climbing elevation - 3500 feet
Elevation at Waterfowl - 5100 feet
We were going to try and leave Jonas Creek at 9am and climb the Sunwapta Pass but the rain start falling very heavy in the middle of the night and continued until around 10am.
We had breakfast in an open coved cookhouse and we meet some nice fellow bikers from BC and Melbourne. It was the smells of their cooking that actually woke me up.
After drying out we finally got our gear pack, though still somewhat wet and we were on the road by 11am. We were once again met with magnificant vistas, absolutely stunning!
We climbed up Sunwapta Pass which summited at 6700 feet. Lugging a 80 pound bike up a gradient of 10% makes for slow going. At the summit I was travelling at 3 miles an hour. A woman at the summit who had stopped to take some pictures ran out into the road and snapped my picture and said 'you are amazing'. Thanks I said.
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