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Wednesday 4th August 2004
Madison
Hostel/Hotel to Ennis, Camper Corner. 74 miles on route. The day didn't
start off too well with a huge rain storm that kept us in the Madison Hostel
for a while - then headed out, rain started again, and Steve got a puncture
only 4 miles down the road, which he fixed rather slowly under a bridge.
But then things improved, the wind was behind us, and we were headed down
a slight downhil for many many miles. We reached Quake Lake - where the
1959 earthquake killed 28 people, commemorated on a plinth at the site.
The wooded hills are quite pretty - nice to have green, largely wooded hills
and mountains. The seismograph in the visitor centre showed that even while
we were there, there were tiny tremors - a bit alarming! In the photo you
can see, in the distance on the mountainside on the left hand side of the
valley, the scar where the earth shifted down into the valley. The wind
hurtled us on down the road to Cameron, where we ate in the cafe waiting
for a huge stormcloud to blow over - good cheap food. Then on to Ennis,
where we pitched our tent. 10 dollars for two people on bikes - I think
this was a discount rate! This was one of our fastest days on a bike - for
about 30 miles we averaged 20mph, even though there were a few uphills.
It's nice to have a following wind for a change! Bears seem to be the top
of the food chain around here - perhaps that's why the local culture likes
to have over sized everything - it makes us look a bit bigger in the scheme
of things so we aren't put in our place by the grizzly! At Ennis Camper
Corner there were a crowd of Canadian camping motor-bikers, heading to a
motorbike convention in the Dakotas somewhere. Of all the forms of motorised
transport that there are, motorbikers seem the most in touch with the cyclist.
The two species seem to understand each other well. |
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