Somers

Magnolia

Lazy Mountain

Cairnes

Della

Started kind of late because I couldn't sleep yesterday night, which made sense because I did literally nothing during the day. Still went to Bighorn Outdoors Specialists to get two tubes, they are from Cannondale and I hope they are durable because they are thick and heavy. That turned out to be a good decision (versus getting tubes in Missoula) as I already had a flat and used one of them. This time it's the front tpu tube that went flat, despite having a freshly installed tire, I think the tube lasted like 1.5 days and I swear I am not bringing tpu tubes for long trips anymore.

The weather of the day was quite good (apart from the headwind), some cloud coverage, cool temperature and dry air, making the climbs less of a suffer. There are 55 miles of road between Simms and Lincoln that has absolutely nothing except mountains and forrests (the Helena Nation Forest), and that stretch also contains most of the climbing of the day. That was gruesomely hard, especially when the road clearly "appeared to be" downhill but in fact was uphill, really messed up your morale, and on the last climb I was going from ~5,000ft elevation to over 5,500 - elevation that I am not adapted to at all. I am also confused and curious about why there was so much traffic on these middle of nowhere roads, including countless 18-wheelers. Oh and I saw a house being transported.

Spending the night at a rest area, the water fountain is not working but I met a guy traveling on an RV and he kindly shared some water with me. He said he used to live in California but he sold everything 4 years ago and started traveling around the country; he's already been to all the lower 48 states and I said he should go to Alaska, he said maybe but if he gets into Canada he might as well begin traveling around the world (which is a good idea). He also said in 4 years of road trip he only paid for 23 nights at campgrounds/RV parks... I envy him.

Preview of tomorrow, 117 miles to St. Regis via Missoula. Komoot is telling me to weave in and out of interstate I-90 which isn't any safer than just staying on there so I might improvise a bit and hopefully drivers won't cut me off at the exits.

-- myWindsock Report --
Weather Impact: -1.6%
Headwind: 45% @ 1.3-3.4m/s
Longest Headwind: 03h 3m 53s
Air Speed: 26.8km/h
Temp: 18.5-25.2°C
Precip: 0% @ 0 Inch/hr
-- END --

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