Day 8

Sleep is the easiest thing in the world for me. Today we are planning on riding the short journey to Polesbridge. We make our make and cheese in the coffee pot and head off. We begin climbing instantly up a 16 mile pass. It is full of construction trucks zooming by us with little hesitation. It's odd. In Canada the cars respected the cyclists with more than 3 feet of distance but in the states it's like the cars are trying to scare us off the road. 5 miles from the top of the climb we find out that the road is being newly paved and we have to walk on the cliffs edge a bit because the asphalt is fresh and can melt our tires in seconds. We descend quickly onto a big dirt road to polebridge. The road is super bunny and in direct sunlight the entire time. So we fry out the next 15 miles and get our butts rubbed sore from the rumble strip like ground. Upon arrival at Polebridge we have lunch sit down in the chairs inside the Polebridge Mercantile and sleep. It's a good nap enough to recharge the batteries and we decide to pull the long haul to Apgar in Glacier National park but first we need food! We get sandwiches and stock up on Gatorade. Finally we grab Polebridge's famous huckleberry bear claws (a delicacy enjoyed by the locals). We leave polebridge and move on to Apgar. The traveling is rough. It's another 25 miles and we are racing a storm. We can see the rain behind and around us. The sky is starting to blacken above us and Uncle Jeff calls out, " we have to get off this ridge!" a clear indication to be ready with he tarp. We reach the top of Anaconda creek climb which is super steep and barrel down at full speed around steep cliffs all the way to Apgar. Not a single drop of rain on us as we arrive but he entire park looks like it had been soaked. We have some dumb luck! We camp at Glacier, have dinner and hit the hay. Tomorrow is tourist day! We get to take a break too!

Miles:80.86
Average: 11
Ride time: 7:19:06
Total: 355.06