Day 52, August 27, 62.41km and 982m climb. Owl Packer campsite to Big Larch Campground Seeley Lake
What an awesome day! Sometimes those days you expect to be really hard turn out to be the best. The first half of the day was climb, climb, climb. Mostly gravel road before we turned onto single track for the last 2 kilometers, topping out at over 2000m.
We had lunch near the top and dried out the tent. It was cold though so we wrapped up warm. While there a young lass from Australia rode up heading the opposite way. We spoke for a while and turns out she had been on the road for more or less seven years. She'd met a fellow Aussie a couple of weeks earlier and they had hit it off. They agreed to meet in New Mexico to ride the last part of the Divide together. She was heading north to complete her own trip before hitching south to join him. I reckon she was pretty cool!
From the top, the single track continued down, down, down. Fast, rocky and exposed. Just how we like it! Eventually we popped out onto a forest service road that pushed us out to Seeley Lake. We have restocked and are in the biker site at the campground. $5 for the night. Bear boxes and fresh water included.
Tomorrow we are aiming for Ovando. A famous spot on the Divide route (not least because of the rider that got killed by a grizzly bear there last year!).
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