We woke up early as we anticipated a long, hot day. Don prepared yet another delicious pancake breakfast on the Coleman camp stove. Thanks again Don ... we all love Don's Diner. We started the day with a climb to the top of White Bird Hill summit - elevation 4429ft.
The descent was interesting with a multitude of switchbacks that ended in White Bird - elevation 1581ft. Hopefully we made Chief White Bird, who was a respected leader of the Nez Perce tribe, proud today as we climbed hard. Good hill Chief ... good hill! We then enjoyed a beautiful ride through the Salmon River Canyon.
I rode with Mason and Leanna for most of the day and our first stop was at Bert & Kates Cattlemens Restaurant in Riggins, ID. It was super great riding along the Salmon and Little Salmon Rivers all day today! We finished our ride with another climb to New Meadows - elevation 5020ft. I was unbelievably thirsty on arrival and headed to Subway for endless fountain drinks and a foot long sub. We are camping tonight in the Dorsey Warr Memorial Park. The park is great and I threw some Frisbee with Bret and kicked the soccer ball around with Mason. Before settling in for the night a few of us went to the Turning Point A&W for a milkshake, I enjoyed two!
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