Day 56 Week 8, Saturday 14 June 2025

We rode from Wisdom to Darby Montana today. Up over the Chief Joseph pass down into the Bitterroot Valley. Beautiful ride. We went by the site of the Big Hole Massacre, where US troops attacked a Nez Perce Indian tribe and killed some 80-90 men, women and children. The Nez Perce Indians have a reservation somewhere here in Montana. Lewis and Clark came by these parts. They stopped by the town of Shula that we passed through, in the Bitterroot Valley where the Bitterroot River runs. After we crossed Chief Joseph pass we had a marvelous downhill run of 6 miles or so into the Bitterroot’s Valley and then followed the Bitterroot River for quite a ways. It was a beautiful day- we are really lucking out! Over the past couple of days the mornings have been cool, sunny with little breeze. We have had thunderstorms roll in in the late afternoons the past several days, but they last 20 minutes or so and they happen normally after we have all finished our ride for the day. Today in Darby it is considerably warmer, in the high 70s, so we expect this evening it won’t be quite so cool. Last night it got down into the high 30s so I had to sleep with my warm jacket on.

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