Saturday, August 18, 2012

Oregon...nothing new to report.

Aug 18

Nothing new to report.  Oregon started as Idaho ended...brown, bumpy, a little too hot.  It will get better.  Here are some pictures to tide you over. 
 







Our ride into Baker City passed the official Oregon Trail monument...photo  bombed by a club rider.
 

New kicks for Betty in Baker City.  They are 1.25 instead of 1.5 and I can feel the loss of cushion but also some increase in efficiency.  Thank you, Justin and Sam for keeping me rolling the last 20 hot, dry and hot miles into Baker City.
 




A welcome station just east of town.  A little tacky but had the virtue of shade.
 



Riding through fossil country and stopped to do a little roadside "fossiking" at a promising location.  Sam found a leaf print in the hardened volcanic ash. 


Tomorrow we ride a short day to have time to stop and explore the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument and visitor center. Then on to Mitchell.

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