DAY 21

No food in the morning makes for a really quick pack up. Looking at our map we had quite awhile before we a store. A while being 50 miles. Counting the miles we also counted our cliff bars. Roller after roller, we climbed than descended, climbed and descended. The view was beautiful, riding along Lake Koocanusa that was tucked on the valley of large mountains littered with massive evergreens. Red tailed hawks and brown eagles flew over head, something you wouldnt pay to much attention to inside of a car. Reaching Rexford, a town 6 miles before Eureka, Hank stopped waiting for the guys to catch up. Evan and Donald pulling in not to far behind, we sat baking in the sun and munching on the last of our food. A car pulled up and and asked if we were hot. I think the sweat we were drenched in spoke for its self. Smiling he threw us three hagen doz ice cream bars. Our gaurdain angle drove off. Everyone meeting back toegther we made the last 6 miles to Eureka, were we found a nice cafe right intown. We all ordered the "Late for breakfast" burrito, and chugged coffee. Three bikers walked in and started to mingle with us. They were riding a sligthly modified Great parks Northwest route. Starting from Prince Rubert in Cananda and heading south into Glacier Nation Park. One the rode for 18 days, they had enough of the bohemian lifestly of a bicycle tourist. Leaving Eureka we would see them agian at North Dickey Lake Campground 16 miles east. At the campground we caculated our just how much elevation we had climbed. At 4500 feet climbed, it turned out we had ascended more than on Washington pass.