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Saturday 31st July 2004
From
Circle Up Campground, Dubois (pron. Duboys) to Hatchet Campground, Teton
National Park - a total of 48 miles on the route. Another appallingly slow
start - but this time 12 noon. After various breakfasts, shopping, attempts
at email and internetting, we finally got going. Headed uphill towards the
Togwotee Pass. A brisk headwind appeared and progress slowed. We crawled
up the 2500 feet of the pass, which without the headwind would have been
easy enough. The landscape became increasingly beautiful - real numbers
of trees, huge rock faces, green grass (not a thorny semi-desert thank goodness).
The volcanic landscape of the pass means that huge walls of rock appeared
on our right hand side. On the way up we met a cyclist doing the transAm
- David Seidman (web site)
and a teacher from Austin Texas, doing the Great Divide Mountain Bike route
and seriously self sufficient. He had water filters so as to drink from
streams, etc, without getting bugs. We exchanged experiences pleasantly
with both. Reaching the top of the pass was great because it was a brisk
18 miles downhill to the Forestry Service campground and food. For the first
time on this trip we had to put food, and the like, in a bear box, because
this is bear country. There was an attack on a cyclist doing the Togowotee
Pass off road a month or so after we went over it. Bear spray saved the
day. We did it without bear spray but perhaps being on road was a wise move!
In spite of thoughts of bears we slept well, none the less! We saw outlines
in the distance of the most fantastic mountains - the Tetons. Coming up
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