Got started at 8:15 a.m. today after a hot meal of oatmeal. The trail was a roller coaster for the first 10 miles. At 18 miles, we went off-route to Holland Lake Lodge at 10:30 a.m. and had a terrific breakfast. It fortified us for the 12-mile uphill from the Lodge. Tough, but scenic. Grizzly bear scat all along the the trial (2" diameter). We whistled up the trail to forewarn the Bears. They all ran away -- didn't see any, though our cans of bear spray are carried on bike handle bars like scepters. Scary though. Did about 4 miles of single track on our 15 mile downhill to Sealy, MT where we got a motel room, "real food," and washed clothes in the shower. Anna, who has spent many days in these here mountains, said, "it may have been her best." I didn't see as much -- a lynx or bobcat and remote mountains and forests. My eyes stuck on the trail. But that 15-mile downhill at 15-20 mph was glorious!
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