Day 6 - Iskut, BC

This was a post that was composed but never got sent due to poor Internet.

Blue skies without a cloud in the sky this morning and it had warmed up to ~70°F by noon. I am headed down the Cassiar Hwy and was originally thinking about camping in Dease Lake. I found the campground and there were a lot of gnats so I kept going. 82 km further down the road was the village of Iskut and there was a promising RV park listed in the Milepost. They have nice tent sites with decent showers and, most importantly for me, a flat gravel pad as I wanted to switch from the K37 to the K28 on the pusher.

Just as I finished changing the rear wheel, I could hear thunder in the distance and shortly after my shower, it started to rain buckets. Today is one of those days when I really appreciate the new Sierra Designs 3-person tent I had picked up in May from REI. It has an external aluminum frame and the rain fly hangs from it. The tent itself is attached to the rain fly so they both go up at the same time. When packed, it is only slightly larger and a pound heavier than the 2-person Kelty tent I used on other trips. The extra space is nice on this rainy afternoon.

It had also rained yesterday afternoon so I am thinking that I may be leap frogging the storm every day. Time to shorten my daily rides. Today was about 220 miles. From the north end of the Cassiar Hwy down to Dease Lake is one of the longer stretches without a gas station at 250 km. The "norm" on the Ural has been to switch to reserve at 164 km. I had an extra 2.6 gallons of gas so I wasn't concerned about running out. I didn't need to switch to reserve until 207 km (indicated) and reached Dease Lake at 228 km (indicated) so my actual range is a lot further than I thought. Not just from better gas mileage but from the odometer error as well.
It stopped raining. Maybe time to make dinner....

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