Continental Divide - Take 1

Spent the remainder of Saturday in Missoula relaxing. I met a paraplegic that was headed to the Olympics in a few days to compete in Adaptive Hand Cycling and got invited to his going away barbeque. Also got to ride a 3 wheeled recumbant with 81 gears, could pulla house up a mountain with it. Missoula is a great town quite a bit like Boulder CO w/out the "fruitcakes", yet. From Missoula I traveled south 93 miles to some Lost Trail Hot Springs where I camped at the springs. Very hot day at 100'F. Passed an excellent antique car show in Hamilton. Early Sunday was up and over the Continental Divide for the first time of the trip, I'll go over it several more time in the next week or so. This time was at Chief Joseph Pass at 7,200ft followed by two more passes yesterday both right around 7,000ft...it was a day of ups and downs. Somehow yesterday was turned out to the first day I broke 100miles in a day. Smoke from CA is drifting into MT and blurring some of the views which at any rate are spectactular. I've been following both the Lewis and Clark trail and the fligth of the Nez Perce Indians east out of OR for the last week or so. Yesterday I passed by the Big Hole Battlefield where in 1877 a group of Non Treaty Nez Perce that didn't want to live on a reservation and were headed east to the plains being followed were massacered in the early morning where they slept by a river. Some made out of that situation and continued east. Eventually Chief Joseph one of the Nez Perce Cheifs spoke to the Supreme Court in Washington DC. It's really a terrible story! My lower lip continues to fall off from sun burn as the rest of me bakes. Just finished a massive biscuits and gravy with chicken fried steak for a late breakfast....I'll be burping that up for the next severaly hourse as I head towards Yellowstone.