Journey Notes

It was a bit of an earlier start today as I got away at 8:30am. Winds were a light cross breeze but they built up over the day. I met up with Rochelle after about 4 hours of cycling next to a farmer's field for lunch at about 100km into the ride. There are not many places around here to stop other than the access roads into farmers' fields. At least it got us a safe distance off of the highway.

The road today was pretty desolate. There was Brooks, Suffield (CFB) and Redcliff and barely a house or gas station otherwise. If it wasn't for Rochelle's support and the fact that I had a 3-liter water bladder in my back pack, water could easily be an issue for a cyclist here.

The weather was warm but not hot and the cross winds were slight head winds sometimes and tail winds at others. All in all, I think that the wind was a net benefit although not nearly as strong as yesterday.

Medicine Hat has two deep river valleys that I had to climb out of before finding our camp spot for the night, another Walmart. At the top of one of the climbs is the worlds largest teepee, originally created for the 1988 Calgary Olympics.

It was a long day, the longest so far in terms of distance (but not in effort) and I am feeling pretty good. Tomorrow, we plan to reach Gull Lake, SK, another 160km day.