We got off to a great start dipping our bike wheels in the water in Anacortes. But best of all, the sun has been out and the weather has been in the 70's. The first day we biked 58 miles to Concrete and the second 48 miles to Diablo. The North Cascades are beautiful and I will try to post pictures soon. Today, our third day, 68 miles and it was a constant climb over two mountains. The first was Rainy pass at 4855 feet and the second was Washington Pass at 5477 feet. It took us over 4 hours of continous climbing, stopping often to catch our breath. No services the whole day and we ran out of water when we reached the summit. Luckily there was a moterhome parked at the top and he refilled our water bottles. We must of passed hundreds of waterfalls and the whole day you heard constant water running.
This group of bikers are all so nice and from all over the county. We are all getting along great. Today was a struggle for half of the group and some of the riders took 12 hours to get into camp. We have 2 more days of hard climbs over 3 more passes.
We have a find of the day and day 1 was a rabbits tail from a road kill and the second day was some bear poop. Today it was a tie with a child's baseball and a butterfly. Most of us were just to busy trying to make the summit.
Need to figure out how to post pictures. To tired tonight.
Wow! Thank you for the update.
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