Ee bye gum. ‘ecky thump. Worra day. Leave Castlegar at 8.20 and start a 17km 744m climb in the rain over Bombi Summit. A nice cool descent over 9km and a fairly level 14km to Salmo. As wer wuz cold and wet we needed a Laundromat which took some finding’ cos it wer disguised as a derelict shed. We quick stripped off most of the wet clobber, chucked it in the dryer and then sat around half naked for the next half hour. Well that kept the local housewives away for a while. We got the now dry gear back on and tried to leave but Mr B. discovered he had a flat tyre so back into the laundry with a toolkit and front wheel to keep the now present housewife company while we fixed the puncture. Said problem solved and we shot off round t’ local caff fer a good ‘ot cuppa tea.. Then we ‘ad to get serious again. A 14km fairly level run to a junction and then the 23km and 1250m climb over Kootenay Pass. Now that should have been exciting but somebody who is in charge ’round here decided the heavens should open 5 minutes from the top. The said person in charge also decided to drop the temperature to 0.9C thus turning the rain to snow. Fortunately, there was a log cabin where we could change into dry kit for the descent. The 30km and 1244m descent was done on roads streaming with water at between 1 and 4 degrees. We wuz soaked and frozen within seconds. Apart from that we “ad a good day. Mines a pint. Cheers.
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