Day 9 Wild Goose to Wilderness Gate campground

Avg 12.5 mph
Distance 28.81 mi
Riding time 2:18
Vertical 808 ft

Notes on the day:
-worst day ever.
-Rained very hard all day. I had no dry clothes.
-My rear wheel decided that it had had enough of this biking thing. I pumped it up several times. It then wobbled a lot. Spent several hours truing my wheel on the side of the road in the rain (had to do it twice.) Finally we called it a day at the Lochsa Historical Ranger Station.
-To quote Bavetta, "We were riding uphill, in the rain,over broken glass, in a headwind, both ways."
-The ranger let us dry off and then drove us a mile to the next campground were we fixed the bike and setup the tent underneath a pavilion in which biking and tenting were the only things not allowed.
-The pavilion was surrounded by groundhogs. We observed the groundhog variety hour starring 8 different groundhogs with "skyhog" patriot of the skies. In his most death-defying feat, this courageous groundhog climbed 4 ft off the ground up a bush.
-I got no snacks today as my repair time was too long.
-We see most cyclists on the day with the most rain. A tour through ID passed us going the other way.
-We also meet a German traveling across the country solo. He doesn't speak english very well but is very excited to be here. He was awesome and had bike from DC to northern ID on his way to Seattle.