Day 67 ended with Zac staying at a KOA campground in Dillon, MT, after completing 75 miles. He had shared a campgroud with two 50-year bikers who were biking their native Montana and sharing the same route for the past two days. There is quite a haze due to large wildfires, even as far away as California. The air quality has been affected. Zac says he is "high dry mountainous areas with incredible scenery".
Dillon, pop. 3800, is best known for the amazing amount of blue ribbon trout streams that surround it, but the area is also brimming with Native American and Frontier history, (it located along the Lewis & Clark Corps of Discovery trail and the Nez Perce Nee Me Po trail) and is in the heart of an area that was a highly lucrative gold mining deposits in the late 1800's. The terrain has granite peaks of 10,000 ft. to the east with gentle forest terrain to the west. Dillon is an agricultural valley that was at one time the biggest wool shipping point in the US. It was named after the president of the Union Pacific Railroad. The railroad made it a major shipping point from Utah to the gold mining fields of Montana.
I have been trying to find out what a "Blue Ribbon" trout stream was. The best is as follows........ A Blue Ribbon Trout Stream must meet certain standards or criteria. It must be able to support excellent stocks of wild resident trout, have the physical characteristics to permit fly casting but be shallow enough to wade, produce diverse insect life and good fly hatches, have earned a reputation for providing an excellent (quality) trout fishing experience, and have excellent water quality.
We leave Zac travelling westward in high elevations, meeting new friends along the bike path of life and still doing well. He appreciates all the words of encouragement he has received. His arrival date at the Oregon coast will be delayed till the end of July, the date unknown at this time.
*Posted by Zac's mom who realized it has been two full months since we were able to hug those spandex'd buns*
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