"It would be pleasant to be able to say of my travels with Charley, "I went out to find the truth about my country and found it." And then it would be such a simple matter to set down my findings and lean back comfortably with a fine sense of having discovered truths and taught them to my readers. I wish it were that easy. But what I carried in my head and deeper in my perceptions was a barrel of worms. I discovered long ago in collecting and classifying marine animals that what I found was closely intermeshed with how I felt at the moment. External reality has a way of being not so external after all."

John Steinbeck
Travels With Charley


So,

Off I go, from Anacortes, Washington to Lubec, Maine.

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

I'm over the hill

THE ROCKIES

The Rockies run through Montana in an area called Glacier.  I had intended to cross  the Continental Divide at Logan Pass on the Going To The Sun Road but was not able to do so because it was not clear of snow (as mentioned in my last post).  Instead, I camped in Glacier National Park in Apgar.  From there I unloaded my gear and biked up Going To The Sun Road.  It was open for 14 miles and from there open to bicyclists and hikers up to the point where they had cleared snow.  The following photos were taken there.  I'm sure that they do not adequately convey the splendor but here they are anyway.  You may be able to click on a photo to make it larger.





The next day I crossed the Divide at Marias Pass, a lower pass but because of the up and down nature, probably just as much total climbing.


Don't believe that I crossed the Continental
Divide?  Well how do you suppose my bike
got there?

Met this guy on the way up.


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