Whitefish to Tuchuck Campground
Strava: 101.3 km, 1482m, 6:17, 344 shifts, 45.6 kph max
Up at 6 as usual then we left the campground at 7. We rode into town, first to the coffee shop, then to the grocery store. We bought enough for two lunches, a breakfast and a dinner. Then back to the Buffalo Café for another excellent but somewhat loud breakfast. Outside, we made sandwiches for the day, then headed out of town.
The road headed along the Whitefish Lake shore, and we turned off after a little while on a dirt side road. We climbed quite a bit, up to a beautiful lake called Upper Whitefish Lake. When I arrived Wytze was naked, drying from a swim. Daniel went in later.
We continued up and when I got to Red Meadow Lake, I found Wytze drying off again. There were some mosquitoes though, so we didn’t wait for the other guys. We went up to the turn onto N Fork Rd which had a “Canadian Border 16 miles” sign. We took that toward the border but turned off on a rougher dirt road to Tuchuck Campground. It’s a nice campground but in the late afternoon there were lots of mosquitoes out.
We filtered water from a nice creek and made another 16 servings of garlic mashed potatoes with tuna dinner. It was maybe 18:00 when we finished and we all just headed into our tents to escape the bugs. I slept hard for a couple of hours, then read for a couple of hours, then slept until 5am. No reception anywhere around the campground.
We stashed just about everything in the bear boxes, not because of bears but this campground is famous for aggressive deer that eat anything salty. That especially includes bike helmet straps we’d been told.
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