56.59 miles
5:28:12 ride time
This morning we said goodbye to our friend Tom. He already has a flight ticket purhcased and needs to slow his pace down so he doesn't get to Vancouver too early.
Safe travels to Tom! We enjoyed riding with him.
More fun riding, more steep, long, uphills, and steep, long descents. We are in the Stikine River Valley, if you want to research that on your own. As expected, its beautiful. There are few pictures because its hard to capture the expanse and size with our cameras. Also, when we are flying downhill, you don't want to stop. Google image search it if you don't want to use your imagination.
Here's what we did get:
We a bunch of people traveling together as part of a group ACA ride. They started in Misoula Montana. A lot of them are retired, and it was good to see that this can be a life long activity.
This is km, but still, you are a long ways from anything, considering Meziadin Junction is not even more than 1,000 people.
Signs of civilization! Maybe we are getting closer to something.... These pylons really destroyed the view of some of the mountains. Oh progress.
Nick and I stopped at a store for a long long time. We had some bad experiences with the cashier lady, and they sold Lucky Charms for $12 a box. The prices of things were written directly on the boxes, or not at all. The only thing cool I saw in there was this sign advertising free contraceptives. Good to know something is cheap up here!
My derailleur has been acting up, and with 5 miles left till our destination, I got it in my head that I would adjust it during one of our short snack breaks. This quick adjustment lead to an hour of me, Nick, and Tom all trying to figure out how to make it shift properly. It went from bad to better to much worse, to, magically, better than it started. I can't wait to see an actual mechanic.
Here we are at that fateful snack break.
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