So today we entered yellowstone through the north entrance and it is hot! We started this morning at chicho hot spring resort and biked through massive head winds that caused us to take twice as long as we should have to reach boiling river hot springs 37 miles away( go if you ever have the chance you literally sit where the spring and the river meet and it is glorious!) Although I should add that both of us had mild heat exhaustion from the day before biking in sweltering heat in the afternoon sun.
One of my fears for this trip was that we started too late in the season and we would get snowed out. Now we are finding that it is just fricken hot to be biking 60 miles a day. It is so hot that I look like a salmon, my right side is pink where I did not apply sun screen. shamus's whale is now a pink killer whale. So what Shamus and I have resolved to do is bike 10 to 29 mile days while we get climatized over the next 4 days. Hopefully that will happen soon because it is just going to get hotter the further south we go!
Oh and we will post pics some time soon.
Thomas
