Today started with a great ride out of Alberton and slowly went down I was looking forward to the Lolo motorway but by the time I popped out of the mountains at the top of Lolo pass I was cold and wet ,A great facility there offered free coffee and hot chocolate,a warm area and the best amenities I have ever seen
After 3 cups of hot chocolate I left to get into the Lolo motorway which is not a motorway but a high mountain track once used by the local Indians .I followed my GPS which led me to a locked gate but had a way around it I thought it a bit strange as it was just an overgrown track with no sign of any bikes been on it. The GPS can’t be WRONG! I keep going and the track starts to disappear then it stops ,I have to retrace back to the Rd and around the locked gate. That was a waste of 20km . I finally find my way to the Lolo track and there s only 160km of it. By the time I’ve done about 50k’m things had turned bad, the temperature dropped to40f , it was raining heavily with sleat and I was cold , I get onto the GPS and look for a route down I find one that takes me to Lolo pass about 20 km away and it turns out to be a very pleasant and scenic Rd and the ride down the pass on the seal following the lochsa river on what is retarded as one of the great motorcycle rds. I arrive at Lowell, and there’s a motel a cyclest arrives at the same time, and we share the only room left ,he’s a nice lad who’s cyclng to Chicago, a great thanks to dry rider fluro wet gear for.