Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Day 13
Townsend to Harlowton - 101 miles
We spent a lot of the day on what Montana calls the High Plains. The 2,000 ft climb up to the plain was through a narrow, heavily treed canyon. Once on the plains there were a lot of long rolling hills where you could see for miles ahead. The last 40 miles was a gradual decent into Harlowton but with a strong head wind it took a lot of work to get there.
Harlow was celebrating the 4th on July 3rd with a parade and a rodeo. Around 4pm we had a major thunder storm that dumped about 6ins. of rain. The town was totally flooded but within an hour everything was dried out and the party continued.
This was a hard day for some and some got caught out in the rain. We were staying at a high school and most decided to sleep indoors incase it rained again. I slept in my tent where it was nice and quiet (and dry).
The group has separated into the fast early risers and the slow late out of camp group. Some how we need to switch these traits so that we are not stretched out for 40 miles on the route.
