Wutheringbikes Home -- TransAm Bike Ride
<< >>

Saturday 31st July 2004

Teton Mountains from Togwotee PassFrom 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 soon.

Wutheringbikes Home -- TransAm Bike Ride