Libby, Montana

This is our last day in Montana! We only have 100 miles to Sandpoint and northern Idaho is very skinny, so it won't take long to get into Washington from there. Hard to believe! In fact, according to the maps, it is only about 500 miles from Idaho to Anacortes, Washington and from there only about 30 miles north to Bellingham. But there are the Cascades standing between us and the west coast so our legs have some work to do before this trip is done!

Total Trip Mileage: 3300!!!!

Here's a quick run down on our route since Missoula. We left Missoula and biked in the Seeley Valley. We stayed in a National Forest Service campground outside of Seeley Lake. The valley had been socked in with smoke the previous weeks and many of the campgrounds were empty of tourists. We were the only campers in our park except for the two campground hosts and several bears (or so the hosts told us). We put all our food and toiletries in their RV and camped directly next to them just in case we needed a safe place to run and hide! We're happy to report that the bears decided to spend the night elsewhere and all was well.

Bigfork was our next stop and we camped along Flathead Lake ~the largest natural lake west of the Mississippi. Bear boxes were provided to store our food and the campground was packed with people, so again, no bear sightings to report.

Glacier National Park - west entrance. Glacier is too magnificent for words, you'll have to wait for the pictures. We spent 3 nights there and could have spend 3 weeks! After leaving the park we spent nights in Whitefish and Eureka (6 miles south of the Canadian border) and are now in Libby. Today we biked about 50 miles along a beautiful resevoir - Lake Koocanusa - on a lightly traveled road which wound up and down along the lakeshore. A quiet and peaceful sunny day, a turquoise lake with mountains every way you look. It doesn't get much better than this!