A good day today riding from Syringa to Grangeville Idaho. Only went 49 miles but had a tough climb about 30 miles in after Stites. 1900 ft over 5 miles with some very steep sections of 10+ degrees in the middle. I think it’s the toughest climb to date. Had to stop twice on this stretch to catch my breath. Should have known, the stretch after Kooskia was rural roads and these tend to have steeper gradients. The benefit however is very little traffic- we basically had the hill climb road to ourselves. At the top of the climb it ended up on a beautiful plateau which took us to Grangeville. It is a land of sweeping hay fields as far as the eye could see. We ended up at the Bear Den RV Resort outside of Grangeville for the night. Really nice showers!!! It was beautiful all day, NO CLOUDS, a gentle breeze. We woke up in the morning and it was not freezing cold and in the afternoon it got up into the 80s. A really good day for riding!
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Biking across the USA with Mike 
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