Lewis and Clark Cycling Trek

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Day 11- Lubrecht Forest to Missoula, MT- 35.15 miles

Ever since we left Great Falls, we have technically left the westbound Lewis and Clark Trail. Lewis and Clark actually followed the Missouri River out of Great Falls in a southwesterly direction towards the present-day city of Butte and then came back north to Missoula. On the eastbound trip, they split up with Clark again going down toward where Butte is now and Lewis took the route on which we are currently going west. In other words, we are on the trail but it is actually Lewis’s return trail. We will join with the westbound Lewis and Clark Expedition once again in Missoula.

We left Lubrecht’s and had a relatively comfortable downhill ride to Missoula. We dropped nearly 1000 ft. during the 35 mile ride. We continued on through Missoula, taking advantage of the many bike lanes that are scattered throughout the city. Traffic is very heavy even on Sunday, but the bike lanes make getting around fairly simple. One thing we haven’t figured out is how to make a left turn across 2 moving lanes of traffic from the bike lane. If anyone knows, please email. We have resorted to pulling off at the left turn intersection, pushing the crossing button, and walking our bikes to the opposite side of the road and then repeating that again…pretty time consuming. We are camping a the Missoula KOA. It’s like its own village with all kinds of services and things to do. One of those is the laundry that desperately needs done. Everything we have is dirty. We even found that most of the time we can get a wireless connection from our own picnic table. We have very interesting, friendly neighbors; Mike, Lois, Jessica, and Brent from Fort McMurray, Alberta. We visited with them until midnight, knowing that we are planning on spending another day here.

Student question: We followed a river pretty much all the way from Roger’s Pass. The river’s name is shared with a Native American tribe name. What is the name of the river?

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