I got up at 4:00 am to get all packed up and we got on the road shortly after 6:00. Patrick was kind enough to let this old man, who doesn’t tour lite, to draft off of him. I don’t do much drafting usually, a lot of the time I ride by myself or don’t trust my skill level to ride that closely when riding with others. But in this case, I was drafting with the best of them. I noticed that on the uphills, if I could stay close enough that climbing was easier on the mild grade of the road but on the downhills (not long and not many) that I was actually having to break because between the drafting and the extra weight of my bike, I was going to run into him if I didn’t. It was fun and it definitely got me up the lower, flatter part of the climb faster than I would have done it on my own.
On this picture, I almost (unintentionally) lined up the road cut with Patrick’s ears, like someone old drive right through.
After a fun and very long decent we arrived at St. Mary on the other side of the park. Patrick and I needed to go different directions from here so we had lunch together in the St. Mary Lodge before saying goodbye.
Heading North towards the boarder, I had the feeling I was being watched.
Chief Mountain is so impressive! I would be riding for days and still seeing it.
Slow and Steady 
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