Day 24 Kinaskan Lake to Bell 2

July 15 74.45 miles
7:07:54 Ride Time

Good morning from Kinaskan Lake! Great free campsite, if you are a cyclist and you get the awesome park ranger lady.





Met many people today!

We met a group from Missoula Montana doing a group ACA ride. Don't know if I mentioned this yesterday. Anways, there were two groups and we met the second group today.

We also met a man from Japan going from Vancouver, BC, to Anchorage, Alaska. He went up via the Al-Can highway, through Banff and Jaspar.


We also met "X." X is not his real name, but he said "On this trip, call me X." X started traveling in St. Petersburg, Russia. He walked across Europe and then flew to Toronto. He worked in Toronto for a year before heading out to Detroit. From Detroit he started walking towards Alaska. His goal is to make it to the Western edge of Alaska and then find a way back into Russia across the Bering Strait. He is ambitious. I asked him why he is doing this, and I don't think he understood my question, but anyways he said that he walks because he can swim across rivers or cross mountains if he needs to.



So good luck to X!

We scared off two more bears, and chased off another bear into a ditch as we approached. We saw a fourth bear from about 10 feet away right beside us as we went down the road. We frightened each other and the bear ran into the bushes, luckily for us.

I've felt great since the 100 mile day, and I think it is time to up the mile quota. 50 minimum no longer, its  time to do 60!

Look at the mountains in the background, ruining the picture of this beautiful transmission line platform.

In BC, there are so many waterfalls all over it's not even a big deal. If this waterfall were in Minnesota, there would be all like OMG OMG!!!!! And there would be brown signs pointing to it for miles around as a tourist destination. Here, they are all like, eh, NBD.  It's just another roadside water fall.

Finally a view not perverted by powerlines.

466 m is really not very high, but we started out low.

I don't know what was actually happening here, but I like it that way. Where is Nick walking to? What will he do there? Will he turn back? Did he get tired of riding his bike? Will he walk to Panama?

So close to glaciers!

Spending night on road by Bell 2. Bell 2 is a heli skiing resort, and is a quiet fancy hotel where a bunch of ski bums work and hang out all summer. We were told they have a breakfast buffet... Can't wait.