I was up early at 5.30 am due to our group cooking duties.
We were cooking a breakfast that would suite our location, Pancakes, oatmeal,
yoghurt and other things. In between serving and wrapping up tents, I had
cereal, 2 pancakes and fruits for breakfast. I got ready and we were wrapping
camp in good time. Since it was a very short day, some were staying back to
enjoy the beach at camp and then start later. The tube that I was using since
Siccamous, BC with a broken valve finally gave up when I was taking the pump
off and I had to replace it with another tube. After a quick fix we were on
road by 9 am.
We (Ron, Keith, Michael, Byron, Trevor and I) did pace line
and changed every 3 km. We were doing excellent time and took a break at 22 km
and then at 42 km (Michael wasn’t feeling that great today. After the 2nd
break, we broke up as the hills got a bit tougher. The tough climb today was
the mile high hill, which was a mile long and not high (at least it looked pale
in comparison to the others we had done earlier in the week). We stopped at the
top and waited for others to catch up. Byron lost a bolt on his back rack and
we were hunting for things from side of road to tie it down. Luckily I had a
spare screw that fit the size and it did the trick. It was Byron’s birthday
today and seems like he got lucky.
Once on top of the hill, we had some nice headwinds and we
gradually had a tail wind as we got closer to the Sault Ste. Marie. We were in
town at 1.30 pm and since it was a Sunday the downtown was like a ghost town.
We stopped at a tavern and they had a wing special (20cents a wing). Since that
was the only thing on menu, I had fries, onion rings and a Gingerale. After a
decent stop we moved on to the last 15 km towards camp (which was all the way
outside city on the highway) and reached there at 3 pm.
I had a can of soda and then I set up my tent and had a
shower. It’s the first time in a week that I had cell coverage so I caught up
on messages and was ready for dinner. We had Shrimp Jambalaya (tofu for me)
with bean salad and ice-cream cake for desert.
I checked weather and the forecast showed warnings of
thundershower tomorrow, so I moved my tent to the top of a hill to avoid water
from seeping in tent. I called my parents, uncle and a fellow colleague/friend
and it felt real good to catch up on things. After packing laundry for
tomorrow, I called it a night and was asleep by 10 pm.
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| Views on the Road |
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| Rest stop at 42 km |
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| The Soo |
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