Friday 28th July

32 miles to Trout Lake Boulder Junction


More Lakes, more wild flowers and a great cycle path. Reached Boulder Junction, an outdoors, non fishing tourist resort. The type of place dentists from the city bring their families on holiday. Fruit in the shop. So I never got further than the camp site on Trout Lake.


SO....


The people in the campsite are families from Wisconsin, they have tents or sensible sized RV's, not giants.


There are loads of cyclists on the cycle paths, but you have to be careful, as they stop suddenly, ride in the middle of the path and can be a bit nervous on their bikes.


In winter the lakes freeze over. The ice is so hard that people drive cars over the lakes. They drill holes in which to fish. BUT beware, there are springs in places. Trucks have been known to plummet into the lake in these non frozen places. 2 people drowned in this way last year. The rescue services will not go onto the ice.


There are snowmobile routes. Quad biking is also popular, with plenty of recreational routes.


Each small town has a museum I have just been into the one in Phelps. There were a lot of photographs of people cutting down trees.


FOOD...

I have to get the calories in. Last night I had a very healthy picnic with avocado, tomato, hummus and quinoa. This morning after cycling 25 miles I had a second breakfast at a diner: 2 eggs, 3 bacon, 3 sausages 2 pancakes (small), 2 mugs of coffee and 2 glasses of iced water. The girl opposite had a bloody Mary, but I did not!  I always seem to be on the wrong day for the pig roast.






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