Right from Lochsa Lodge we got on the Lolo Motorway. The intention was to ride as far as we could this day. The ride was fun. Challenging. A lot of rock gardens and babyheads on the climb and descent. Some of the climbs seemed to go on forever. It was certainly a workout.
About halfway through we started seeing some traffic. Quads, UTVs, other adventure riders. We ran into a crew of older guys that do these types of rides every year. They were from Texas. They rent a 15 pack van and trailer and haul their bikes wherever they can to ride. We also saw a lady on a bike by herself. First woman we saw out here.
We hit the Indian Post Office, which is really a few piles of rocks where Indians left messages, meditated, and saw the medicine man. I forget to mention, this section, and a lot of our trip is on the Lewis and Clark trail.
After this section things went south as you read from Marks post. The roads are narrow, rocky, sandy, with many blind corners. As we were coming down we hit a blind corner and Mark (in the lead), was running straight into a couple riding 2 up on a bike. First 2 up we’ve seen. Mark hit his rear brake and bring in deep loose rock, he slid sideways. On a steep, that’s just not good. Mark fought well, but ultimately the bike toppled on him, 500+ lbs. You can read his post about it. He ride on 3 more hours after the crash to get yo Pierce by the way. No medical services there.
This obviously cut our trip short for the day and we stopped in Pierce, ID, our planned gas stop.
We stopped at the Timber Inn for dinner and ended up getting a hostel style room there. We hung at the bar until close meeting Brandi the bartender from CA, Robby the owner also from CA, the town drunkard (self admitted) that was just flat out confusing, but invited us to camp on his front lawn so long as we didn’t touch his 17 year old niece, Steve ( who was working on getting drunk), and John the town manager. They were all mesmerized by us ‘east coasters’. A few beers, a few shots, country on the juke box, and Mark was still in pain. Hell, it was a country song.
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