I was told about the next two mts. I will face today. The one called the North is 532m in elevation, worse than Smokey, oh great! Another great morning and I am preparing to climb this Mt. I had to get some food in me and I forgot my chain lube and it needs it. I pulled into a bakery/hardware store. It is not to often you can buy some sandwiches and some chain lube in one store. Life is good. I can see in the distance the road going up the side of the mt. So here we go. I passed two lookouts and as I was passing them I was getting words of encouragement from people at the lookouts When I would come to a turn it was getting steeper. As I come to the last turn as I know after the climb I got off the seat. I rested for 20 mins. straddling the bike. After 3 tries I finally was able to get on the bike and finished the climb. The climb took me 65 mins.The North mountain is now the worst mountain climb over taking Smokey from yesterday`s ride. I learned a lot from that ride and for the next mt.I used the lookouts to rest. I am having lunch in Pleasant Bay at noontime not knowing Mackenzie Mt. is up ahead. The elevation not as high as the North Mt. and I used the two lookouts and it was not a problem. It was flat for awhile then I saw a sign French Mt. 542m. Oh no, but this was downhill. Going downhill after the North was pretty cool. I was reaching speeds of 60kms and more which I had to feather the brakes.
Lots of construction, twice I had to walk the bike and by 4:30pm, I have only pedalled 40kms. Cheticamp is another 40 kms. so I decided that will be my destination for day 7. The west side is so beautiful, I took a lot of pictures. I stopped in a bike repair store in Cheticamp to fix the front brake caliper.
Hi Hon I still can`t get any signal to call you and this campsite had to get rid of their payphone because the salt in the air was ruining the phone. I don`t know about that
I am having dinner and camping in Cheticamp
Today`s ride- 82kms. Total- 861 kms.
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