WWR Day 26 Trail Creek Bridge CG to Soda Springs

WWR Day 26 Trail Creek Bridge CG on Blackfoot River to Soda Springs
Wed Aug  21 2019

Distance 49
Start elevation 5502
End elevation 5774
High point 6250
Low point 5502
Climbing about 1700'
Ride time 5:50
Total time about 6:45
Days bike camping: 17
Contiguous days riding : 9

Another blue sky morning , though it takes a while for old Sol to reach me.
Working to get out a bit early as I have nearly 50 miles  to Soda Springs with no shade and another warm forecast. Camping options are again slim after about 10 miles.
Given that, I am a bit slow and tired as the tummy gremlins started a kickboxing fight last night, forcing me out at 4AM for an emergency outhouse run. Yum!

I pack up, eat though queasy, I will need the calories for the long day.

I start out with a stiff steep quarter mile climb out of river bottom, and back onto the rolling bench lands. There are 3 more stiff and steep climbs before the next few campgrounds, one of which I need to push my steed for 50-60 yards. I am glad I camped at Trail Creek Bridge, with its shade. The other campgrounds don't really have trees, though there are a few patches of willows.

The rolling sage and scrub bench lands continue for about a dozen miles. I gain the Blackfoot Reservoir Rd, and the riding gets a lot smoother, less rolling.
The lands around me are changing too, as more grazing fields are appearing. About 20 miles in I meet my first vehicle of the day.





I keep peddling and the grazing land transitions to dry land farming, huge fields of wheat cover the  lava creviced undulating landscape. There are no irrigation rigs in sight as I flow through this landscape and gain the long Blackfoot reservoir. This is the top of my day and descend for 15 miles to Soda Springs, though hard to tell as the grade is gentle as I leave the high country wheat fields behind.





I stop at the historic Hooper Springs a few miles out of town. It has a nice park, but did not sample it's carbonated mineral waters.
The last couple miles is a nice gravel rec path back into town.

I had been planning to take tomorrow off for a rest day after 9 days if riding, even more so after last nights tummy gremlins antics. I unpack in a hotel with AC that struggles to cope with the still 90+ weather, and I am worn out.

Tomorrow I sleep

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