Today was a little more challenging of a ride. We started at 7 AM in pouring rain and it rained off and on most of the day.
During the day was saw live moose, dead moose, caribou, grizzly bear with 2 cubs, dead porcupine.
Our riding temperatures varied from 49 degrees to about 67. The 49 was a little cold considering it was pouring rain at the time – be we survived.
Sawyer’s bike had a problem starting after we were stopped at a bridge construction project and it took a while to get him started again. During that time the mosquitoes were so thick that you could not take off your helmet and there would be hundreds of them on your face shield. We got Sawyers bike fired back up and were rolling again.
We stopped in the town of Fort Nelson and had Subway for lunch – it was great after we had been eating like pigs for 4 days.
Our plan for today was to ride to Watson Lake which was 650 miles, but we planned to stop at the Liard Hot Springs to soak our butts a little and we liked it so much (and they gave us a premier campsite in their pavilion for free) that we decided to stay and soak our butts a little longer. The hot springs ranged in temperature from 118 degrees at the entry end to about 107 degrees at the cooler end. The Hot Springs challenge was to get to the entry end and set a rock on the shore and get back before cooking. Sawyer and I were able to do it – the others chose not to try (they are the smart ones).
At the hot springs we talked to a lot of other riders that gave us great input on our upcoming rides to Inuvik, top of the world highway, etc.. It seems the road to Inuvik is largely good, but there are some VERY SLICK SECTIONS that can run a couple of miles in length. He went in a car and slid all over when hitting them. In addition, we were told that the Top of the World highway is about 4 inches thick with mud for a couple of hundred miles. It is a VERY TOUGH road if there has been rain – we are looking forward to it.
Steve
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