A wonderful evening was spent at the Spoke-n-Hostel in Mitchell. It was a full house with another bicylist from BC and two women hikers from Eugene. We talked a lot of cycling and about the eastern Oregon landscape. The women got caught in snow in the Strawberry mountains and came down to the hostel.
This morning we got coffee at the hostel and breakfast next door at the cafe. We left in the rain. Weather made all day a challenge. We had 16 miles of climbing to the summit all in the rain and as the temp went down from 41 to 33. The downhill was not bad as it was not steep. We could pedal to keep our legs warm. Hands and feet were all in a partial or whole state of frozen.
The last leg into Prineville was flat and fast. We got a hot lunch at the Cafe Pioneer in Prineville and now are at our Warmshowers host. A hot shower has unfrozen me. We will spend the evening with Anne and Marcel and their 3 daughters.
Tim Ice reporting- Warm Showers hosts normally provide lawn space for camping and use of a bathroom with warm shower. Our hosts have a compact house (three bedrooms, one bath) but, anticipating our bedraggled state, managed to tuck us into an outbuilding with small shop and sauna. We layed out our sleeping bags on the sauna benches.
After showers and Marcel arriving home from his job as a smoke jumper, we were treated to dinner from their garden and an evening of Irish jigs and folk songs by Marcel and the daughters.
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