Another beautiful day in the mountains with no cloud or wind. Breakfast of fried potato and scrambled egg, followed by muesli.
Peter and I set off at 7.15am. The first 23km were downhill, perhaps a 700m descent.
Did the first 23km in 44 minutes. Then up up up, to Sunday Summit at 1291m, just on 32km into the ride. From then it was largely downhill to the campsite at Hedley, which I think is about 450m ASL.
We averaged 23.9 kph for the day despite all the ups and downs. One really steep 3 km descent where I got to 62kph
Saw 2 deer on the roadside, but no bears yet. Stopped at lots of places to take photos and have something to eat.
We were second into camp but while writing this we are still waiting for the truck to turn up. They are swapping trailers for a new, larger one which is being delivered from Ontario. This means shifting all the gear over.
So I'm feeling ok at this stage. We have a long day of 145 km tomorrow into Kelowna where we have a rest day. Today we followed the Similkamine River. (Spelling?)
The day tomorrow is along the lakeside so hopefully not too many hills.
Camp about 4 k West of Hedley
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