Shortly after starting out on a
cloudy drizzly morning, I discovered a assembly problem with my bike that had
escaped my notice. There is a skateboard wheel that acts to send the chain
through a pathway to help with slack. I discovered that the wheel wasn’t
rotating at all and I wasn’t sure who was responsible. At first I wasn’t sure
what I wanted to do---at first I felt it was necessary to call my mechanic at
Back Bay Bike in
There were three guys hanging around
in front of the store in a sort of
After a time, I decided it was time
to continue on even though it was still raining. It was obvious that it
wouldn’t stop anytime soon. Further on down the road in Newhalem, I came upon
the group huddled in front of the store where we were to buy our groceries for
the night. The plan was to continue on to our campground that had no shelter
and no showers. In a constant rain there would be only one way to describe the
setting: misery. Fortunately Tim had a good conversation with the store manager
who allowed us to stay in the Seattle City Light Company bunkhouse. There were actual rooms, beds, hot water,
kitchen, spring water dispenser, heat, laundry and showers. The only way to
describe this setting in a rainstorm would be: paradise. The downside to staying
there was that we would have to do 72 miles the next day to reach our rest day
town (Winthrop). That ride would include 50 miles to the top of
The woods surrounding this area, where
there was part of the hydroelectric system that provided power to the City of
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