Friday July 18, 2008
Snowville to Brigham City Utah
Distance 110km Official 104
Uphill 1940ft
Downhill 2205 Ft
Net -265 ft
Time 5:17
Max 51.9
Average 20.2

Another difficult day, not as bad as yesterday, but the heat really gets to you. I drank more than yesterday and it certainly helped, but even so I had consumed 3L before I had to go to the bathroom at night

The climb came early and went well. Then we had 32k of road which had the warning sing ‘loose gravel’ they had recently tarred and coated the road with gravel and it was rough. Besides there were these long straight stretches which seemed to have progress laugh in our faces.

We had a lovely stop at a café in Corrinne, where we shared a large French fry and I had an iced tea. In Brigham City we noticed a woman with her feet in a small irrigation channel about 18 inches wide and as deep. Water was running in it and Joan made us stop and we all waded in. aahhh did that feel good. I didn’t even take my socks and shoes off. It felt sooo good. A little later on Claire and Joan stopped at the bike store and I went on. Outside of town I found a fruitstand selling freshly picked apricots at a dollar a pound. I bought a pound and a half for which I was charged one buck and I’m afraid that they were all gone by the time I got to camp 20 minute later.

The first thing I did when I got to camp was to stake out my site, next I took off my shirt and shoes and went for a swim in the lake. This is a fresh lake. It is part of the great Salt Lake, but a dam separates it from Salt Lake and keeps it fresh. It is this water the city ad orchards use for irrigation. The lake wasn’t the cleanest I have ever seen, but the swim was wonderful.

It’s amazing how positive and responsive people are. The churches of Utah had one of the members drop off a huge water trough with about 20 watermelon and ice in it. We are enjoying it right now. Even though supper which was wonderful and filling and had huge pieces of Cherry Cheese cake for dessert was less than 30 minutes ago, boy can we eat. But the response goes way beyond the CRC and the RCA. There was a sign along the road welcoming C2C cyclists at a local fruit stand. The owner had seen us on TV and every one who stopped got a bag of free Bing cherries. I didn’t see the sign and it was on the other side of a busy road which I’m sure kept the traffic down,