The long days are starting to stack up. Today it was 77 miles along the Clearwater River. We started out in the desert of Western Idaho, but after about 25 miles we entered Clearwater Canyon. The desert hills graduall began giving way to hills of pine forest. It was another beautiful day, and if not for the leftover fatigue of the past couple days it would have been a gorgeous jaunt.
Well, except for the traffic. We're riding US-12 through the canyon, and it is a rode basically without shoulders. The traffic is certainly heavier than we would like and forces us over to the rough edges of the road. So, part of the fatigue comes from riding over rough pavement mile after mile. But, when the traffic passes and there is a period of calm you can hear the river running down below and take a couple seconds to glance up a the hills that will soon be developing into mountains.
We have kittens in camp tonight. Kittens and hot showers, which take the edge of the day. Supposedly there are eighteen kittens somewhere, but we see three adventurous ones that come out of hiding to play with us in our camp site.
Tomorrow the climbing starts.
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