Townsend to Ennis 76 miles.
Today, much against the popular opinion of the group, I took the BOB along on the ride. What raised their skepticism was the fact that we had a two mile climb of 7% and two other smaller climbs. I reassured them that it was nothing worse than the training rides I had done back in PA.
And, it wasn't. I just took it slowly and got some good long pulls from one of the stronger women riders, Leslie, who Dave and I rode with a few times last week, and from one of the staff, Greg, who was riding loaded with rear panniers (he was also riding as the sweep -. I was the last one in today, but I also got some great pictures of some astounding views of the surrounding snow capped mountains, including a rainbowfilling a whole mountain gap (which I really hopes come out).
The day was again mixed weather wise, and varied from overcast & cold to sunny, to rainy. The rain wasn't nearly as bad as yesterday's, and whileI got wet, it wasn't soaking.
Ennis is a cool little western town with real cowboys running around. Had a beer downtown with a gang of cyclists & locals & am off to bed.
Heading to Yellowstone tomorrow & a trip to old faithful.