Day 49 Waterton Park to Cardston

After getting ourselves straightened out from the extreme yoga positions required to enter the tent in the rain and keep our bedding dry, we lay awake for some time being assailed by the heavy rain on the tent. Modern technology is amazing one thin layer keeping out all that water… A long time after we dropped off it stopped and became a thin drizzle. How do I know this? Well I think it was that third cup of coffee that did it, but now the yoga had to be employed one more time in reverse to get out of the tent. You guess the rest. When morning came, the sun showed its face and we ate and chatted with the boys as they readied themselves for a mountain

trek, and we our journey to Cardston.

A helpful wind, a partly cloudy sky but chilly air had us decked in Polar fleece and socks as we headed down (!) the valley and away from the mountains. The road was in fact rolling which kept our average speed down, but not too hard.

The rear tire I had put on yesterday was somehow out of round, so we were going along in an imitation of riding a horse, bumpity bump, so we made the decision to change it and use one of the tyres I had bought last night at Pats. All was smooth again. We stopped halfway at the Mountain View Café for a charge of hot chocolate and a muffin, then it was easy biking into Cardston.

Unfortunately, it did start to rain so that was the end of photos for today.

Once in Cardston, we called in at the Pro-Shop and met Jim, who had some tyres but not the quality we wanted, so he rang up a shop in Lethbridge 100kms away and organized to have what we wanted delivered tomorrow. Can’t say too much about the time and trouble Jim was prepared to take to make sure we got what we needed.

The first motel we applied to had absolutely no room for bikes, their loss, so we went up the road to the Outpost and took a suite for less. Excellent. We fed well, caught up on the blog, and of course retired early.

18.5kph Average,

Todays Altitude Gain 450m

Total Altitude Gain 23450m

Todays distance 57km.

Total Distance 3393 km

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