Hope

Yesterday was a great day. Time wise I didn't do great only 125km but tuft was over 14 hours with 10 hours actual biking. Part of the problem was the hills but a mote pervasive one was the headwind that kept attacking me and thus kept my pace down.

I met so many interesting people yesterday like the 2 ladies at the info centre in Merritt and then the couple who filled my water bag at Cold River. And right after they departed a large motorcoach pulled up and immediately their little black cat Nova snuck out and so for next hour I chatted with them while they hunted cat.  I finally made it to the summit but I hadn't realized it as I must have missed the sign.  Anyways my plan was to camp at these walk in camp sites near the summit. And near the top I realized my trailer tire was flat.... it picked up a nice staple. I tried patching it but only got a couple km before it was flat again so I replaced it with the spare I had.  Note the only place to but tire tubes for the BOB Trailer is at MEC which can be a problem.  So my new tire also came with a slow leak so every couple hours it needs to be pumped up.

So finally a hint of civilization appeared a rest point so I pulled off to use the facilities. And to my luck which today was full of (God had a big hand in this day) where I talked to the vendor owner who told me the walk in camping no longer exists... so for a moment is was screwed. I was looking at a nearly 200 km day.... but he told me that there was a room in the building that can ne used to sleep in which he usually tells to cyclists.  I was hoping to make it further so he told me the facilities at the truck break stop 11km down the road has the same room. 

Once I got there it was after 8 and I figured that was far enough for today and I camped out in the room sleeping on my mat.

Someone on Buzz suggested I check out the old train tunnels near Hope so I was going to today bit after an hour of cool wind and lots of rain all I wanted was a Hot coffee so I resisted pulling off the highway and kept plugging down. The highway is nearly all down so you can get down pretty quickly. There it a small 2km climb near Hope.

Today my goal is to hit Harris hot springs to relax and refresh as its been days since I had a shower (rain doesn't count). So I will blog more from my phone tonight I hope.  I have to say I am very impressed with my HTC Hero phone running Android. I have yet to own a phone 6 months and still be 100% happy with it.