I'm today in Missoula, MT at the headquarters of Adventure Cycling a non-profit promoting bike touring and doing much work mapping new routes (they're hiring). The scenery and weather over the last two days has been epic. Till this morning, a short 30 mile downhill into Missoula, I'd been riding uphill pretty much non stop following a series of rivers --> creeks that flow into the Salmon, (Middle Fork, Clearwater, Lochosa)some part of the original Lewis and Clark trail too. The scenery in the canyons is incredible quite a bit of elk, deer, all sorts of birds pulling fish out of the water. I'm giving up on listing the National Forests because I rarely leave them just go from one to the next. The last two nights camping spots I've gone to bed listening to rushing water and waking up to birds having some sort of orgy. Spent a few hours yesterday with several biology students surveying the return of Bull Trout to the upper Lohosa river. They were led by the Idaho Fish and Game Department. Amusing, they put on wet suits and snorkels and anchor themselves to the ground forming a line across the river counting what swims or floats by. When they come up to early to talk or something the game warden tosses rocks at them and laughs. I learned quite a bit! I'll being doing laundry, minor bike repairs, and relaxing rest of today.
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tell the truth bill, was it the game warden throwing rocks, or you?
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