Originally Posted by BillyGoatGruff
Don't be silly, he rode a pedal bike along the one main paved road and is an expert. Just like Bristoe coming out to Glacier on vacation 40 years ago is.

LMAO


Lets get real here, I rode a pedal bike eastbound on the shoulder the southern side of Rt 2, the official southern boundary of the Hi-Line. So technically I never set foot on the Hi-Line at all.

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But I gotta tell ya, by the time I reached Jim's booming megopolis there weren't much of a shoulder to speak of at all, and this road sees a lot of traffic eek

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..and this is supposed to be an integral part of a main cross-country bicycle route.... crazy


But anyways I did SEE the Hi-Line, right across the road to my left smile

...and I did ride a dirt road NEAR the Hi Line, but running south.... and I did stop to take this last photo of the Hi-Line in the distance, looking back along my own tracks...

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Note how the rear wheel tracks more or less in a straight line, while the front goes from side to side with every pedal stroke, especially up an incline and especially in the dirt and especially on a 70lb bicycle. That's on 700x35 tires running about 70lbs of pressure cool


Meanwhile, ain't there just as many dirt roads up there across the Medicine Line, except colder?


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