Day fifteen: June 24

The alarm went off at 5:20 this morning. We left Wallace at 7:15 am, got a great start to our day as we headed on the trail for a little over 6 miles, picked up I 90 for lookout pass.it was about 12 miles to the top of Lookout pass, cross the border into Montana and downhill, some flats, riding right beside the fast moving cars, logging trucks, semis, trucks, and all those other vehicles traveling East. We were on fire today, hydrated, good nutrition from dinner last night and good fuel for our ride. We were set. No distractions, no reasons for pulling over today.so one would think... After the majority of the ride we came into a little situation (flat tire-rear), thank goodness Nick knows how to fix that. With only 8 miles left to ride he came across something leading to a slow leak. One would think pulling over to fix it would be the right thing to do; however his determination to finish our 48mile day taking us into St Regis was more important. We stopped quickly trying to avoid a situation with whistler, put air in the tire and road like a bat out of hell. We continued riding this way into town where we stopped at the store for something to drink. The tire was completely flat at this point and still Mr mechanic did not feel like taking off all the gear, or the rear rack (which would have been another 30 minutes and he could just do it when we got to the camp), he filled it with air and continued riding to St Regis campground (1.5 miles more to go) ridiculous right!! Anyways we made it and unloaded our things. Eventually Nick got to the flat which ended up throwing the tire away (nice going)! Truthfully we had an amazing day and rode really well leaving ourselves feeling very productive, so flat tire or not we weren't going to slow down and definitely not be stopped! 48 miles Time: 4:38:23 Average pace: 10.1