Montana you are alright by me. What a great day on the bike.
71 sweet sweet miles from West Yellowstone to Ennis.
Abi and I got another late start, as she visited the catholic church in town, and I caught a imax movie about Yellowstone's history. Sorry that I skipped church God, but great job with this part of the world.
We got on the road around 12 and headed West. We rode past beautiful mountains still sporting patches of snow on their peaks. For the first half the day we had a glorious tailwind. whew it was nice... but it seems that with touring the highest of highs are probably going to be followed by a head wind. We earned the remaining miles. We followed a storm into Ennis, arriving there just as it did.
We took a break earlier in the day and visited Quake Lake. The lake was formed in 1959 as a result of a land slide caused by two earthquakes. The valley was full of tourists camping when the mountain came down that august night, killing 28 people and stranding hundreds more. A survivor of the disaster was there visiting the memorial the same time we were. She shared her memories of the event with the crowd of strangers.
"It was like god picked us up and sat us down in another world," she said, talking about seeing the drastic changes to the landscape when the sun rose. She and 27 others took refuge on the side of the mountain, to escape the rising water. They were eventually rescued by a man who heard what happened and used his personal helicopter to evacuate the campers.
Wow!
We are camping tonight at a very nice RV park just outside of town. The sunset was absolutely amazing.
Pumped yet again to see what tomorrow has in store.
T.
71 sweet sweet miles from West Yellowstone to Ennis.
Abi and I got another late start, as she visited the catholic church in town, and I caught a imax movie about Yellowstone's history. Sorry that I skipped church God, but great job with this part of the world.
We got on the road around 12 and headed West. We rode past beautiful mountains still sporting patches of snow on their peaks. For the first half the day we had a glorious tailwind. whew it was nice... but it seems that with touring the highest of highs are probably going to be followed by a head wind. We earned the remaining miles. We followed a storm into Ennis, arriving there just as it did.
We took a break earlier in the day and visited Quake Lake. The lake was formed in 1959 as a result of a land slide caused by two earthquakes. The valley was full of tourists camping when the mountain came down that august night, killing 28 people and stranding hundreds more. A survivor of the disaster was there visiting the memorial the same time we were. She shared her memories of the event with the crowd of strangers.
"It was like god picked us up and sat us down in another world," she said, talking about seeing the drastic changes to the landscape when the sun rose. She and 27 others took refuge on the side of the mountain, to escape the rising water. They were eventually rescued by a man who heard what happened and used his personal helicopter to evacuate the campers.
Wow!
We are camping tonight at a very nice RV park just outside of town. The sunset was absolutely amazing.
Pumped yet again to see what tomorrow has in store.
T.
maybe the nicest rv park
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