2-12-09
High Country

I was in this really nice hostel and was the only one there, when this guy came in. He is a Canadian and from Quebec. He teaches school and took a year and a half off to ride his bike around the world. He has a website that lets his students keep track of him as he goes. Most of it is in French but you can hit the English link and one tab lets you see where he has traveled and where he is going. He is headed back to Canada on the west coast and will ride across Canada on his way home. I really liked his little computer. He said the battery would last six hours and it has wifi too. Tiny little keyboard but he held up his hand and he has little fingers. He was pretty small but after peddling that far I bet he was tough as nails.

A milking stool at the hostel.

Here he is ready to ride his 120km for the day…..

I rode thought a small patch of the fire burned area. As the bike guy said it doesn’t smell very good. All those barbequed animals are now rotting…….

Someone’s house but looks like his pivot and field with cows are ok. lots of animals got cooked. They said the fire came roaring at 100km/hr or 60 mph……. It sure caught a lot of people by surprise.

I stopped in at a KTM store looking for a new pair of gloves as mine are finally wearing out. All they had were the motocross ones. Two hot little road bikes were on the floor for $14 and 15 tousand.

I am now in heavy forest country as I head up into the hills on the Alpine Highway. They were doing all they could to save their logs in case of fire for sure.

The road kept getting better and here they advise us motorbikes that it will get thrilling soon. They were sure right about that. It was a little over a hundred km to Mitta Mitta where I thought the Horizonsunlimited meeting was going to be held. There were only two other vehicles on this stretch and almost no straight stretches and plenty of 15km corners. It was raining down low but stopped as I climbed higher. It got damn cold up top with wet gloves and an Aerostich suit that leaks from all the patches it has acquired over the years. The Horizons meeting is next month. I read the date wrong…. No bikes at all in town…. Nice road though…

High country that has been burned some time ago.

When I worked in the woods I worked setting chokers behind a logging arch like this one. the winch must have been used for high line logging but not sure.

The mountain streams were nice and clean and have trout in them I guess.

After getting all that sass about having that Reb flag on my bike last year I had to wonder about this guy and his flag. Does he get shit down here about it too? He is along way from the South, actually WAY south of the south.