{"id":3979,"date":"2012-07-17T17:45:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T17:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gonesouthblog.com\/?p=3979"},"modified":"2012-07-17T17:45:11","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T17:45:11","slug":"polebridge-to-glacier-n-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rideeatcamp.local\/polebridge-to-glacier-n-p\/","title":{"rendered":"Polebridge to Glacier N.P."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
It was the best of climbs. It was the worst of climbs. If Dickens were a cyclist he’d have been inspired on today’s ride. We entered Glacier National Park from Polebridge. The ranger and also the owner of the North Fork Hostel we stayed at last night told us that the dirt road we planned to ride down to get to our campsite at Fish Creek was closed due to flooding. We frowned. But, he said, we could still use the road as long as we didn’t mind getting our feet wet fording the flooded area. We smiled. We love getting our feet wet. It’s sort of been a theme of this trip even though we’ve yet to ride in the rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
When we arrived at the flooded area we were surprised that the five inches of water covering maybe twenty feet of the road would cause the rangers to close it. We rolled through it with confidence and thought, “That’s it?” Well as soon as we rode up the road we saw the real reason why it was closed. The nearby creek had overflowed and actually swept away a good ten feet of dirt road. It was time to get wet. The water was flowing pretty fast across the missing section of road and it was about knee deep as well. I tried rolling my bike through it but the current kept pulling it away from me. Damn. I didn’t want the bike to fall in or I’d lose my camera and iPad. With Carrie’s help we got both bikes across and continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n