37 miles. We awoke in our Warm Shower host’s house, treated him to breakfast and then headed out and up (again!). The road was up and up through forests devastated by the North Star fire a year ago -sad looking mountain sides of burned pines and charred ground cover. So we climbed and climbed to the top of Loup Loup Pass that, coincidentally, is home to a new wolf pack.
Once at the top we oohed at the view and then descended to the town of Omak and the city run campground where we tented in the middle of 30 or so RV’ers mostly from Canada, who complained about the “pitiful” state of the Canadian dollar. We can highly recommend the Breadline restaurant in Omak…HUGE portions and since we are burning many thousands of calories riding, we didn’t feel guilty at all about stuffing our faces including at the “well known” bread bar!!
Life in the RV park was a little strange with families living in tents side by side with the Canadians, stray dogs, late night phone calls with the woman tenting next to us at midnight, sun rising at 4:30 AM. But we’re surviving. Tomorrow is a relatively short day to the town of Tonasket and camping behind the city welcome center.
The photo at the top of this page I s representative of the gorgeous scenery we saw en route today. The “no horses allowed” sign was in front of the rodeo next to which we camped. Most small towns in Washington have their own rodeos of various sizes, but we hadn’t seen one before that didn’t allow horses. Ha ha!
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