A top ten day on the bike. After we rolled out of the Methland RV Park, it was 20 pleasant warm-up miles, then a start up the climb over Thompson Pass. While a relatively long climb (~6 miles) it wasn't all a grind; up a while, then flatten out, the up a while, and flatten out again. Once reaching the top of the pass (2678') we had an opportunity to walk up to a view point, which gave us some really amazing vistas. After lunch it was time to zip up the jacket and get ready for a decent starting us towards Valdez, 2500 feet in the first 8 miles. Our friend the headwinds joined us for the last 15 miles of the day, so even while going flat or somewhat downhill you still had to earn the miles.
Stayed at a large commercial RV park in Valdez, nice facilities with all the requisite cyclist amenities; showers and a place to buy salty snacks and beer. Valdez is the end of the line as far as the bike ride is concerned, so we spent the afternoon boxing up our bikes to be loaded on the gear truck. The RV Park sat just across from a marina in Valdez, and it appears many of the people were in town for the fishing. As such just outside the main shower and restroom area of the RV Park was a big fish cleaning station. The sight of gutting and filleting probably caused some of the PETA leaning cyclists in our group great consternation.
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