Average: 6.7 mph
Distance: 28.7 mi
Kris had breakfast going for us when we finally dragged our butts out of bed at 10AM! It was a late night last night, for sure. We didn't get on the road until about 1 PM, and then stopped at The Base Camp to get some new dry sacks to go in the Super Twinkies (the bag that hangs off the saddle). Then we began climbing...and climbing...and climbing... Helena sits at just above 4,000 feet and the camp we're at is at 6,300 feet. It was a long day, and I was sweating profusely. We bought some Nuuns tablets at The Base Camp to use as an electrolyte sort of drink, and they actually work really well.
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We're now in Helena National Forest, and we're camped at a place that's been closed due to pine beetle infestation and clean up. It looks like a freaky war zone with all the downed trees and lack of human presence. It's quite sad to see what the pine beetle has done to the forests around here, and frightening to think of what might happen in years to come.
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