Reporting from Lowell and tanking up after the long downhill from Powell...

Monday July 22, 2002
Motor Bikers in disbelief that anyone would ride a bike.

Bicylcist in disbelief that anyone would pressure cook a dog and wondering if Captn Clark preferred lite or dark dogs.

The heat makes the ponderosa pines mint the air with their fragrance. The cottontails seems so midwestern but a reminder of what a contrast this country is: rushing water, dried out basalt, withering quick seasonal flowers, rapids coming & going do to the amount of snowfall. A land of extremes side by side.
Friendly Americans and happy to be rolling down the river. They are part of a group which are fully supported. They rode 80+ miles from Lowell to Kooskia.
Cowboys and Indians: 1950???
Had a bottle of Gatorade with "Aunt Ruthie" who is 92 and guardian of the Hummingbird Haven. She says there aren't as many as there used to be.
The Cougar Canyon Rest Stop had a whole album of pics of the weiner mobile just waiting for me to look at it . I miss a chance encounter by about 2 years.

End Mon.