A truly memorable day today. First of all the weather was amazing - brilliant sunshine all day long. Temps started out at a chilly 48 degrees but warmed up to 92 by day's end! Thank goodness for heated gear and layers that can be shed. We had a long day planned and I wondered if we had bitten off more than we could chew when we chatted to a man in the parking lot of the hotel who had taken two days to ride what we had planned for today. Even then, he complained that his second day was too long. Indeed it was a long day but we had an amazing ride - another tick off the bucket list. We rode North on Route 75 through the Sawtooth National recreation area. We joined Route 93 at Challis and followed the Salmon river for most of the day. This area is an outdoorsman's dream, with fishing, whitewater rafting and hiking in the most incredible countryside. The riding was quite demanding with lots of twisty curvy roads - but we loved it! We climbed high into the Bitterroot mountains across the Lost Trail Pass where apparently Lewis and Clark got lost - or at least no one knows quite which way they went! Here we crossed back into Montana. Then we descended into a valley where the temps climbed into the 90's and finally we reached our destination of Missoula for the night.
Day Trip total: 320. Moving time: 6hrs. Total time on the road: 9hrs!
Total mileage to date: 4253
I have almost 800 photos from today to sort through - so here is just a small sample:
The Tyrolean Lodge in Ketchum - very reminiscent of Austria
Ski slopes just across the road from the Lodge
Steam rising from Hot Springs running into the Salmon River
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