A good day of 67 miles stared in early morning chill and ended in blistering heat: mid 90’s with barely a tree to seek cover under can feel overwhelming on the road on a bike so we have shifted our schedule to start earlier.each morning. Extremely hot and dry weather is being discussed everywhere we go. And the sight the other day of the Brownlee Dam with virtual no water coming down the spillways felt ominous.

Today we rode about 50 miles downstream along the Little Salmon River . We had ridden better than 30 miles by 9a with very little pedalling, and the landscapes we rode through were lush, misty, and beautiful. Fortunately the traffic was much less today on an early Saturday. The afternoon mikes were tougher and much hotter, but overall it was a good ride and we are now well over 700 miles into our expedition.

The day ended with the owner of our lodging, who it turns out is a Nurse Practitioner , performing minor surgery outside on one of our team members. Hopefully sunlight provided good sterility assurance , because there was a lot of it on the “operating table”,.

In the late afternoon we finally took a cool dip in the River next to our overnight stop, and suddenly the high 80’s heat felt good,