Jackson To Montpelier, ID
I felt really fast leaving Jackson, I kept up with some of the fast guys for awhile. After the first rest stop, I drafted Andrew and Bronwyn. Andrew is a machine, I was really suffering trying to hang on the back. At the third rest stop, Ron and the British guys came by and Ron encouraged me to jump on the back. Again I suffered. I got dropped a couple miles before Lunch and Rebecca offered to tow me in, but I needed to go at my own pace.
We had a pretty big climb after lunch and when I got to the top, I was sure I had more climbing to do. The road descended into a valley and all I could see on either side was really really tall mountains. Mountains to the left of me, mountains to the right of me, mountains in front of me. But, there was a valley between them and we snaked down through it. John Lake passed me right before the descent, so we were within a couple bike lengths all the way into town.
