Dorr Creek Campground to Rocky Gorge Campground (north of Libby) (72miles)

6-25-2010

After another good nights sleep, we had a couple nice stops before completing an exhausting, hot day of riding.

Once again we were on the road before 7am.  This time after only 16 miles we stopped at a beautiful waterfall, and hanging bridge.  We all locked up our bikes and started on a bit of hike to see the hanging bridge.  What a sight!  Quite neat, and awesome to see the power of water in action.

Don heading across the swinging bridge.

After pictures, and some "oohing and ahhing" we headed up the river to get to the proper falls, which were more like big rapids, but still incredible.  So all together, we had about an hour break, and then we were back on the road.

Our next stop was Libby, where we purchased some food and had some lunch.  Unfortunately it wasn't a quick stop, we all seemed to scatter once we got into town, and had a hard time connecting back up.  Because of all those long stops in the morning we had a long ride in the heat of the afternoon.  As we started to ride, we encountered some thunderstorms.  We saw lightning and heard thunder, and even got rained on, but it never seemed to be too close to us.  However we did take shelter at the Libby dam where we could get under some cover.

Libby Dam

While at the dam we saw 5 different bald eagles flying around the bottom of the dam, it seemed like they were fishing in the calm spot at the bottom of the spillway.

Those three blac specs are eagles thouh it's pretty hard to tell.

Then it was back on the road.  I slipped on my ipod and just buckled down to finish the ride, 22 miles left.  Finally I pulled into our campground, another beautiful Forest Service site.  Once again I hurried to put up my tent, so that I could jump in the lake to relieve the burning (sun burn) in my legs.  While sitting around that evening, almost everyone decided that we needed a break, so we decided that a short 30 mile ride to Eureka and a hotel was in order.