day 82, confluence of the Bull and Clark Fork Rivers, 51 miles

A quick 11 miles down the road found us at Kootenai Falls, where we took a short hike to check out one of the few falls on a major river in the NW not dammed up for hydropower. 4 mi later we turned to the south and followed along the Bull River drainage with the Cabinet mts. this time to the east. The whole ride was like flipping thru a rack of picture postcards!

We stopped midday at "Little Joe's" cafe in the middle of nowhere for lunch, no sign of Hoss and the rest of the Cartwrights. I think they were out filming the episode where Ben hires some questionable drifters to aerial spray the "Ponderosa" for pine bark beetle.

Upon reaching our picturesque campground, we stopped at a convenient store to refuel with - you guesssed it- chocolate milk, and met a nice young man originally from Worchester, MA who was on a mt. bike and pulling a trailer. His adventue had started in Edmonton and will finish in Bellingham, WA, doing a mix of dirt and paved roads. We shared our Adventure Cycling mapped routes with him (we are now on their "northern tier"), including the "long-cut" thru Colville that will eliminate one of the 4 passes through the North Cascades.