{"id":262,"date":"2010-06-07T23:41:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T23:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theseatpost.co.uk\/?p=262"},"modified":"2010-06-21T02:30:50","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T02:30:50","slug":"day-6-dayville-to-baker-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theseatpost.co.uk\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"Day 6 – Dayville to Baker City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mon 7th June 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well where do I start with today? Firstly I’m writing this in my tent at 10:34pm listening to Chris snoring in his tent next to mine. It reminds me of the tardis taking off.<\/p>\n

We should have finished at Austin Junction today but as we had cycled 10 miles past Dayville when Bob picked us up that made today’s already short day even shorter. We knew we could get further than Austin Junction but not as far as this. It was a little too ambitious really and has made us very late.<\/p>\n

\"Hello<\/a>

Hello - I'm a Gopher<\/p><\/div>\n

Anyway I got up at 5:00am and Chris thought he was on another rest day and woke up an hour later. After breakfast Chris remembered to fill his water bottles which was a marked improvement from last week. Unfortunately after filling them, as we later discovered, he left one of them in Bob’s kitchen.<\/p>\n

So we loaded the bikes into Bob’s truck and while struggling to lift Chris’s bike in Bob named the bike Sherman so that is now its name, forever.<\/p>\n

\"Cyclist\"<\/a>

Loneliness of the long distance cyclist<\/p><\/div>\n

Bob drove us back to within 10 miles of Dayville and dropped us off where he collected us and we set off at 8:00am with a nice tailwind. We made good time and in Prairie City we met another Transam cyclist who was going both ways\u00a0 and hoped to be home before winter sets in. Good luck to him.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Nutters unite<\/p><\/div>\n

A few miles east of there we were cycling along when a vehicle kept hooting at us. It was Bob and Mike on their Harleys. Having found the water bottle Bob needed no other excuse to get his Harley ‘Clifford’ out of the garage. It was great to see them both one last time but for some reasion they weren’t keen to swap bikes.<\/p>\n

\"Harley\"<\/a>

The handover of the water bottle<\/p><\/div>\n

Reunited with his water bottle we set off again. It was a lovely day and the roads were very quite.To reach our planned stop we had a single 5,277ft pass to climb but to get here we had three 5,000ft passes to get over and cycle over 100miles. By 4:00pm we had reached a place called Sumpter and we should have stopped there but for some reason decided to press on another 30 miles to Baker City.<\/p>\n

\"Mountain<\/a>

Fabulous scenery<\/p><\/div>\n

The last 30miles was not quite so downhill as we expected and it took us longer than expected to get here arriving at about 7:00pm with not a clue where we were going to sleep. After stocking up with food for dinner and breakfast we eventually found a nice campsite near the edge of town.<\/p>\n

It was getting dark as we ate our dinner and we were late to bed. It will be midnight before I sleep but I don’t care. We’ve had a great day in some of the most spectacular scenery and we’re 60miles ahead of schedule. Tomorrow we will have a short day to bring us back in line with the planned stops as so far this ride we have not stopped at a single location I had planned to.<\/p>\n

Tonight is our first night in the tents and it does feel good to be in here although typing this is not easy. We both felt good today (must be the buffalo and elk) and it was a very tough days riding.<\/p>\n

\"Dinner\"<\/a>

Dinner in the dark tonight<\/p><\/div>\n

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A typical sight - A roadsign to some a target to others<\/p><\/div>\n

Good to see some comments from our friends in Australia and NZ.<\/p>\n

Daily Mileage – 103.6<\/p>\n

Time in Saddle – 9 hrs 16 mins<\/p>\n

Total Climbing – 5,575 ft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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