Making good time

If you look off to the left in this photo you can see the burnt out woods. The next 15 miles, for as far as you could see had been burnt down. Just small trees coming back up. Must have been tens or hundreds of thousands of acres burnt.
Glad we weren't here then.

Charlie mentioned the wolf earlier, but I thought it was incredible. It walked out onto the road about 50 yards ahead of us, saw us and went back in. It was big.

At a motel in white river, figured dropping temps and threats of thunderstorms tonight it was a good idea. Made our 74mi we needed to keep on track.

Dan now has my Achilles problem, Charlie a bit of a aching knee, I'm good on the bike, just not off it.

We all can see the end being a reality now.

Dad, ice in the sleeping bag made the difference....

John