Category: Bike Tour
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Yellowstone National Park (Roosevelt), WY to Yellowstone National Park (Canyon), WY
This morning’s alarm was closer to “last night’s alarm”, waking us at a record-early 3am. But it was an exciting 3am, not a forced-march 3am: we were getting up to watch the Perseid meteor shower! Even more exciting for me was that it was Rett’s idea; I’m much more of the astronomy/science/cool-shit-in-the-sky nerd than she…
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Yellowstone National Park (Roosevelt), WY
17 days ago I spotted an opening and was able to book one night at a cabin at Roosevelt Lodge. 16 days ago I booked a second night when I saw another opening pop up, even though it was in a different cabin type that would require a move. 9 days ago we decided to…
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Silver Gate, MT to Yellowstone National Park (Roosevelt), WY
Hey, there goes that 5am alarm again! But this time the main reason to get an early start wasn’t one on our normal list (usually wind, heat, or traffic). It was because we would be riding through the Lamar Valley in Yellowstone, called the Serengeti of North America, and they say early morning is the…
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Cody (Island Lake), WY to Silver Gate, MT
The alarm went off at 5am, once again trying to get us to complete our ride before the afternoon headwinds rose. Surprisingly the temperature had “only” gone down to 41 degrees, which isn’t too bad considering our bed was 2590 ft. higher than where we had woken up yesterday. We still had the campground loop…
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Red Lodge (Parkside), MT to Cody (Island Lake), WY
Today is the day, the day we summit Everest. Well, our Everest. It’s only a little over a third of the way to the top of the real Everest, but crossing the Beartooth Pass at 10,947 feet will be the highest we’ve ever been on our bikes. “Only” nineteen miles of distance remained between us…