Everyone assumes that we are in town for today’s marathon. But we managed to resist the temptation to join in. In fact it was pretty much all over by the time we had got up! (They started  at 6am to beat the heat).

  
We wandered round the area near the Uni campus, where there are some lovely, delapidated wooden house.

   
 
The campus itself is very attractive – and the Uni of Montana has a mediim sized social work dept! Mmm.. 
  
It also has good views of the hills behind, labelled L and M (M just visible above) for Lake Missoula – mentioned earlier. In the next photo you can just about make out the horizontal lines of the various lake levels. (The zig zag lines are the path leading up to the M – no we didn’t!). This was the vast lake that drained explosivley through the Clark Fork river valley that we were riding yesterday.  

But most of the day we spent reading and lying down. Can’t think why. Tomorrow the adventure resumes. 127 miles and 6000 feet of ascent across the open, big skies of the Montana grasslands, with only 2 tiny settlements all day – oh, and we cross the Great Divide. Can’t wait.