Day 6

Location - Baker City, Oregon Miles/Total Miles 81/467 Climb 4650
Today was a rough day for me, we had less miles to do but still had to climb just about the same amount. There were three steep hills and thanks to the long day yesterday, I didn't have much left in the tank. With about twenty miles left I basically ran out of gas but my room mates (John and Gene) helped in by teaching me the ins and outs of a pace line. I went from crawling along feeling sorry for myself to a 16/17 mph ride for the last twenty miles into town. As the pace line pulled me along I had a chance to recover and for those who don't know, the line allows you to draft behind the other riders with less effort. I did have one miss que when the lead rider dropped back - I swung wide to left into traffic when I was supposed to pass on the right and almost ended up road kill (I purchased a mirror today to remedy that problem). Baker City is an example of the perfect mid America town you see in the movies, complete with a soda fountain where I had my second vanilla malt of the trip.