The plan for today was to go even higher into the mountains, we would cross the continental divide at Togwotee Pass (9658 ft of elevation). First Richard Carey and I headed out of Jackson on a brand new bike path that took us into Grand Teton National Park. THE VIEWS WERE SPECTACULAR. Pictures don't do the scenery justice. I saw a small heard of Bison grazing off the road. We rode through the park and to our first SAG stop just outside the park boundary. There we loaded our bikes on the van for a short shuttle through some road construction, and then I continued on up the mountain with John Nixon from Texas. The gradient was not as extreme as yesterdays 10%, but the views were. Stopped at the top for some documentation photos and started down the other side. We had thirty miles of downhill, that I rode at an average of about 23 mph, on our way to the small cowboy town of Dubois. This place is right out of the 19th century or Cowboy movie set with wooden sidewalks, and hitching posts. Elk antlers as an architectural accent are everywhere. Not to mention, I saw the world famous Jackalope.
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