June 13 Cut Bank to Conrad, more about it.

At the hotel breakfast we chatted with a couple who were taking a motorcycle to Glacier and warned them about the snow advisory starting in the evening  in the Glacier area. They were just like us with being a little bit puzzled with a not-so-great forecast: do you wait or you just keep going?  We are thankful to be well out of that area before the snow hits. 

We did have rain during the night and it was quite wet as wheeled our bikes outside. The hiking couple came out just then so we took a picture of them and they took a picture of us and we got their Facebook page to keep track of what they're doing. 

We are thankful that the only wetness we had was possibly a tiny bit of drizzle and for sure some road spray for the first mile or two. We could see the clouds and rain off to the east and behind us and at times over the mountains but we had partly sunny skies. And WIND!  That was the defining thing about the day.  It was out of the west and we were heading south so gusts would tend to push us around. Thankfully there was little traffic. A few times during the day we would head east for a few miles. After our stop at the grocery store  in Valier, we had a longer stretch going east and it was a lot of fun up and down the hills. We stopped at the library in Conrad and talked with a young man who had been born and raised in a Hutterite colony (we had found out that there are a number of these communal colonies around here) but whose family had left it. We stayed with Warm Showers hosts in Conrad and the wife was descended from one of the founding Conrad brothers. 

Our hosts’ 2 dogs.