In yesterday’s post, I suggested I might be able to make use this morning of a predicted clearing in the rain we’ve had for today’s 20-mile ride from West Glacier to Columbia Falls, MT. It turned out that this break in the clouds was a myth, and when rain continued to fall quite steadily at…

I was up early this morning to see if today’s rain would turn into snow, something that weather reports indicated might happen by 8 a.m. I had a quick breakfast in the lodge around 7:30 and, since no other guests showed up, had a nice chance to meet Hannah, who also works as a waitress…

I left my motel in East Glacier at 7 a.m. yesterday (Sat., 6-15), anxious to make the final climb to the Continental Divide before the weather was supposed to deteriorate that afternoon. My weather app for the day said that there would be “severe weather,” including a “high wind warning,” beginning by about 2 p.m.…

Yesterday (Fri., 6-14) I had a wild windy day climbing 50 miles into the Rockies from Cut Bank to East Glacier, MT (pop. 363). I left my motel just after 8 a.m. in moderate headwinds of 10-20 mph, but over the course of the day these doubled in intensity, at the same time that I…

…and the more impossible it looks that you could ride a bicycle through them. I’m talking about the Rocky Mountains, of course. But my maps, and my Chief Navigator Trudi, say this is actually possible, and so that’s my plan over the next couple days. Today’s ride took me 33 miles, mostly north, from Valier…

There was another wind advisory today, but I only had 25 miles to cover between Conrad and Valier, MT. It wasn’t a terrible ordeal to make it that far in spite of the strong headwind. I arrived before noon and was able to check in to my motel early. Here are a couple of photographs…

Yesterday (Mon. 6-10) was hard. I battled two villains all day–winds of 20 mph, gusting to 30, and some lengthy steep hills. I was heading west and north during the day and the winds were coming from the west, so the stiff breeze was either trying to stop me in my tracks or knock me…

Yesterday (Sat., 6-8), I rode about 64 miles from Stanford to Great Falls, MT. It was a long day–I started around 8:30 a.m. and didn’t arrive until 6:30 p.m. I am glad to be taking today off. It has given me time to attend to things like installing the two birdsong apps that a couple…

My apologies for talking so much about wind conditions lately, but I figured I had to let you know that last night’s prediction of a wind from the east today didn’t play out that way–at least not right away. I had a tolerably moderate headwind (i.e., wind from the west) this morning, but then the…

I had a 32-mile ride to Lewistown, MT (pop. 5,901) from my remote cabin near Grass Range. The promised improvement in the headwinds I would face wasn’t quite as favorable as predicted yesterday–winds were around 11 mph, gusting to about double that–but the change from the previous day was still pretty dramatic, and I was…