Day 27

Date: July 7
Mileage: 53.5
From: Ennis, MT
To: 19 miles North/NW of West Yellowstone


I really don’t like Ennis, MT. In a word, people there sucked. We went to Sunrise Bagel this morning, expecting sunshine and happiness, but instead met the bagel bitch. Worst server/restaurant owner/whatever I have ever had. She went out of her way to be a complete bitch to us, especially Lauren for some reason. I’m too annoyed to explain further…

It was cloudy and cool today! We got caught in a storm and got hailed on a little bit, but man is that better than 106 degrees! Luckily, there was a rest area with picnic tables under roofs and we took a siesta. Very lucky, because we were in the middle of nowhere without shelter for most of the day.

It was only 4 when we got to our originally planned campsite, and we all felt great because of the cool temperature, so we were going to press on to at least West Yellowstone and maybe Madison. But then the storm picked up when we were near an RV park. We had an amazing tailwind that pushed us over a hill, but then a not-so-amazing side-wind that almost pushed us off the rail… So we decided not to risk it, because it would be really rough if it became a headwind. Plus there was lots of lightning.

The RV park had two teepees, so we got excited about that. So we’re staying in a teepee about 19 miles North/NW of West Yellowstone for $20 (with showers!) on Hebgen lake.

We cooked dinner and hung clotheslines in the teepee. It’s even big enough that the bikes are in with us. Oh, and of course it stopped raining when we paid for the teepee.


Lunch stop! Mmmm cheese whiz and tuna on crackers...


Nice view... This is Earthquake Lake. We had to go up another big dam hill to get up here (although the wind helped push us up).




Inside the teepee!


Teepee at sunset