Day #59-Jackson to Darby, MT 75 miles

This is the place we stayed at last night!  This guy does a good business putting up cyclists for the night.  Zack and Jill made it down from their camp at the pass and ate breakfast outside.  That’s Zack on the right.  Finley is on the left getting ready; and that’s Steve in the middle. As you can see there’s not a cloud in the sky.  We rode 20 miles to the next town, Wisdom, for breakfast.  Then we began a long climb out of Big Hole Valley to Chief Joseph Pass some 7200’ up!  First we indulged in Second Breakfast at The Crossing Bar and Grill in Wisdom!  The last 30 miles were downhill!  We’re at 3885’ in Darby so we descended about 3400’!  It was fun times for us.  The last time we were at this elevation was in eastern Colorado!

We rode with Finley again today and the three of us are camped out at Travellers Rest Cabins-RV Park.  It's another great small RV park!

Tomorrow we go to Missoula 62 miles away.  We’re going to lay over there an extra day.  The Adventure Cycling Association headquarters is in Missoula and we’ll check in there during our stay.  Missoula is the last stop on map #4.  We have about 1000 miles to Astoria!