Day 36, Wednesday, August 22, 2012, Campfire Lodge, MT to West Yellowstone, MT
Easy morning after a hard day. Breakfast at 8 AM was very good. The special was a blackberry pancake with one egg and three strips of bacon. The pancake was huge, edges overlapping the plate edge. I left about three bites of pancake on the plate.
The route was flat as our elevation gain statistic will attest. I took the pictures below as an example of the view across the reservoir. It has a dam so it's man made and therefore a reservoir. Unlike Quake Lake which has a nature made dam created during our lifetime. It's my opinion and I'm sticking with it.
Gorgeous morning to ride.
Same spot in the road as picture above.
I took these pictures of log house builders because I wanted to.
Fairly big structure. Good sized logs anyway.
Bucking the log to length while the front loader holds the log up.
The strap is centered and they are working the log around to carry it to the structure.
Off they head for the building.
A log flattened on one side.
The log is going to be placed somewhere on the back side of the building.
This man was notching a log.
West Yellowstone exists for the tourist trade. We ate at a Chinese food restaurant for dinner and the waiter says he moves to Salt Lake for the winter. The restaurant closes down during the winter.
It looks to me as if the tourism business is slowing down. It may be selfish reasoning on my part as I project it means less cars and rv's in Yellowstone. Wishful thinking, probably.
Tomorrow will be another long day, around 50 miles with over 2000 feet of elevation gain. We will climb to our highest point tomorrow for our whole trip. After tomorrow it is kind of downhill to Jackson. Three more days of riding the Rex on its inaugural trip. Then I pack it up and ship it home to Carmichael.
Stats: T= 1:55, Mx= 25, Av= 11.9, El Gain= 616, Mx Alt= 6490, ODO= 4259, D= 22.8
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