Tough day yesterday, lots of climbing, lots of dust on the road. Not to mention heat was probably somewhere between 99 and 100 and we’re only at about 4000 feet. We did manage 60 miles, actually 62 miles, yesterday but today we got 60 miles of them off the map.

It was hard not to jump into this lake at the top half called Red Meadow Lake, we still had 22 miles down into Whitefish, Montana. Whitefish is evidently a recreation town of less than 10,000. Lots of trophy homes along the lake and very small downtown area. We found a restaurant specializing in pork before we even looked for a place to lie down. Grilled pork salad went down with 3 16-ounce tumblers of water.

The hardest part of the day is gone climbing is riding with a semi-flat tire. A slow grind, it had to be pumped four times in 60 miles. Don says, “should’ve been 10 times”. He tried fixing it once we got to town on a picnic table, no joy. Now it’s on the bike stand shown above.