Day 7

I awoke to yet another warm cabin. It's much better than the cold and dreary rain from the day before. It is cloudy outside and I am hoping that it won't rain so we can make it to Roosville, USA. We ate breakfast with the leunberger's and said our good byes to them and began riding off to the Mt. Galton Pass. The road to Galton was a lot of valley with long and rolling hills. The trail continued this way until we hit some rocks piled on top of each other marking the off trail single track. The single track was true wilderness terrain. High grass, fallen trees, and a little worn route made by the racers and travelers of the divide race. We continued on the trail till we hit the part on our cue sheets that stated "steep hill" well steep is an understatement! This is like rock climbing with 50 lb bicycles on mud with water streaming down. Well it took some time but we climbed the trail only to find an obstacle of fallen trees. The only way we can make it through the trees is by crawling under and hurdling over them with our bikes. We finally make it to the clearing filled with tons of cut trees and we have to walk the bikes to the trail on the other side. I get this feeling that maybe this might just be the toughest bike race around. We follow the gravel road all the way to the top of the Galton where snow begins to fall on top of us. It is interesting the way snow feels right as it's falling. It's watery with a tinge of ice formation to it. The description of the descent is called extreme. Extreme is right. We bomb done the steepest and fastest descent ever! Over 3 miles of balls to the wall fast descending with speeds of 40mph. All to get to the very end, 2 miles away from Roosville. We passed through the border easily and tried to make phone calls. Yay no international rates right? Well to bad I have zero service in Montana. Sorry Alex. Sorry family. I will text whenever I have signal. We went on to the first and last chance bar to have lunch and pushed on to Eureka (I found it!). Montana land is very hilly and the roads just roll onforever on the plains. We make it to a grocery store in Eureka just before a rain storm hits and take time to buy food. Then we ride on the extra 10 miles to graves creek cabin to sleep and call it a day.

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