total km: 836.2
Today marked the day of our entire journey's most difficult pass. Blueberry-Paulson pass is over 1500 m in elevation - 200 m higher than the Crowsnest Pass over the rockies. It is about 34 km to the summit, going straight up the entire time, save for a bridge, and a 100 m downhill break that occurs at approximately kilometer 32. Pretty damn tough. Not too tough for a 72 year old woman though! She was travelling with 7 ironmen who passed us on a training run. 72! Can you imagine it. She was just out on a joy ride.
In lieu of this, we got up nice and early to avoid the hot weather. We only made it 10 feet down the campsite driveway before Brandon rolled over a staple and puntured his back tire.........again. Flat number three.
It took us 4 h to summit! We are very proud of ourselves. When we finally saw the summit and elevation sign we both started hooting and hollaring and pumping our fists into the air. Very cheesy, but so exciting. We then collapsed on the side of the road for a much needed break.
Our descent would have been really fun, but it was extremely cold! We both had our fleeces and jackets on, and we were still freezing. We had to take breaks coming down just to warm up.
Neither of us liked Castlegar very much. Nice scenery, just a bit hickish. Our campground was nice though! Also run by a couple of hicks, but they were very nice hicks. We randomly camped in the same place as another guy heading across Canada, a Kiwi named Reuben. He, we like the company of very much. For the record, he also finds Sam odd, and ditched out of riding with him as soon as he could. See, it's not just us.
Halfway up the pass.
Happy as clams.
B&K
1 comment:
however inappropriate as this is going to sound, it has to be said:
b's crotch looks bloody impressive in bike pants!
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