Journey Notes

After 667km over the last 7 days, and a huge day coming up, I decided to make today a rest day. That way I will be ready for the 150km day that includes the Rogers Pass, one of the longest hills that I will climb on this trip. It's approximately 900 meters (~3,000 ft) of climbing elevation over 70km (~45 miles) before I get to do the very long downhill towards Golden.

We slept in late and Rochelle made her special no-carb pancakes for breakfast. We moved very slowly all day, catching up on email and I fixed some ArtSites bugs and worked on some new features.

We are camped just outside of Revelstoke so we bicycled over the "Big Eddy" bridge across the Columbia River to the town site and rode around. Not much going on on a Sunday other than a number of nice restaurant patios. We also rode south along the river on a nice bicycle path on a dike. It was a nice, slow 10km to remind my body that the cycling is not over.

The day tomorrow will be long so I have a plan to get away at 7am to give me plenty of time. We hope to have a break for lunch at the top of Rogers Pass. I figure it should take me approximately 6 hours to get there.