Made it to Idaho, cracked my last real beer just after a shower 5 miles from ID. Of course I-84 doesn’t connect w/ a town for more miles to come. Utah beer is 4% which is supposed to be 3.2% which is approximately 4/5 of full beer.  But it is the idea of drinking near beer. Tomorrow buy big boy beer.

Persiad shower was prime last night. Unfortunately Silver Lake village lights obscured the sky. I stood in the the side door way to see at least  3 burners before going to bed. Temp dropped to 45 overnight, great sleeping temp. Parking lots I have slept in is a chapter of a book for sure.

Plan today is to ride the Mid Mtn trail from Terminus where I am to Ambush down Canyons ski area then use free urban transit to make it back to my van. Trail starts around 8,000. the valley is like 6,000. Big elevation road ride back w/o bus. All single track up high until dropping down into town. Yesterday I was told that a bus does service the village. I asked 2 people I saw in the parking lot and both concurred that a bus does stop.

OK. Headed out by myself as was almost the entire trail. Big time construction as in dozers & earth movers occurred several places alng the way, the trail was effectively rerouted. Pretty neat: the trail map was published this year. Right on top of changes. Can’t get my mind around the expensive construction for wealthy people to buy when so many are w/o a job. Trade people are employed which is good but paid for by making money off someone else’s labor.

New places were very rocky peppered by small peices of sharp edged hard rock. Dusty. But in the woods the trail was firmer. Dappled by shadows hid features I should have worried about.Long day. Rode between 7,800′ and 8,600′ w/ just small ups. great bike.

Dropped down onto pavement. Decided to spin back into town. Found transit center and the stop for my bus. Put my bike on rack on front then settled back into my seat to watch scenery go by. Steep climb back to van.

Plan is to stop @ bike shop down canyon to buy some Endi=urance First  electrolyte stuff that Gene was hot on then drive into Idaho. Needed a shower. Outside temp just missed 90, the drive thru SLC was 87. heavy traffic.; disrupts my tourist speed.

XG just short of ID border & right off I-84 supplied a $5.00 shower. Not a KOA.

Back on I-84, crossed ID border, looking for night spot. Map showed USFS land just off interstate. Exited. Gravel road on ea side of I-84 paralleled it. Took a ranch road just graded up a steep hill and onto plain just above but out of sight of I-84. Pulled off edge into field. Electric sunset.

Tomorrow is Ketchum / Sun Valley for next staying location. I missed riding there last fall as snow had already fallen mudding out the  trails.

Ride took me thru Deer Valley, Park City, & canyons. Trail crossed many runs. Will say that there are some serious black diamond ski runs. Lot of avalnche control in bounds.

Yesterday i drove in from Dry Creek canyon to Altitude cycle for internet work I socialization. Turned on computer and like magic, just riding along, stuff that the computer would not access internet. So began the phone calls listening to several techs w/ English as second language and over a cell phone connection. And then maybe MS was pushing updates that some took others were retracted.  Almost everytime I turned the computer off per the tech request it wanted to run updates. I pretty much stayed working the fix till 4:45 after spending about 30 mins w/ an english speaking woman. I needed to meet Troy @ 5:00 @ his shop. My patience was past fried. The last attempt the tech wanted failed. I told her I had to go, my patience was gone and I was that close to putting it under my left rear wheel and backing over it.No internet for the day.

Troy didn’t show which was good & bad. bought a prepared spinach salad for dinner. Drove back out to McCoy Flats for sleep spot. 3 miles by road from rt 40, maybe 2 miles by raven. RT 40 is Main st. Loud motorcycles & cars ply the street. The noise rattled me.  And the heat under a cloudless sky w/ no shade was cooking me in the van. AT 10:00 bedtime it was 80 degrees outside.

Plan today was to ride from corral camp for 2 hours, drive back into town for $1.50 shower @ rec center, buy propane, then drive to Park City. The last tech call @ 7:00 told me of a Verizon store that could fix my internet issue. All things happened.

Rode Jackalope & Serendipity trails on the corral side of raod. Fun trails on desert soil. Up higher was round river roack, down lower it was crushed rock & packed dirt. Got to steer again. I likened the first day of riding like driving my old Golf-GT VW: carving corners. So much fun. My bike stuck to the ground. So much fun. The uphills still hurt by the downs & flats were just a hoot. Today’s ride was 15 miles climbing 2012′ out in the big sky desert.

Shower @ rec center.

Stopped @ Ace for propane. Spitter valve doesn’t perform. Needs attention relying on internal shut off valve. A woman filled the tank, the spitter didn’t vent leading her to think no propane went in in spite of the meter reading 4.9 gals. She mentioned this to another store employee. He walked out to my van. he assessed that propane did indeed go into m y tank. And the spitter needs help. He noticed the Bike Mag pic on the side of my van. I told him it was from a mag article. He went into the wow zone then pulled out a pocket spiral notebook and asked me for my autograph. Not even a mtn biker. he went on about me being famous. I asked him if he was know for something. He said he pulled up his ship’s anchor that was entwined in an old sailing ship anchor. He begged his skipper to waypoint the location. He didn’t. Some time later the guy, Red, read that one of Drake’s ships had been discovered and his boat’s Danforth was hocked into Drake’s anchor.

Route took me westward on rt 40. Further west meant more moisture as trees morphed from cedar & juniper to firs.

Made Verizon store. Road construction trashed the main drag in front of store; he had no customers. He worked on my computer via telecom w/ another tech. Several more joined in conversation. Problem moved to trouble ticket ( meaning bigger problems). Used the store’s wi-fi. I was told I would be called w/i 3 days . Walked to grocery store & back and the phone rang. Another tech was on the line. He instructed me, in just minutes he fixed whatever.

Internet back.

Drove up to Silver Valley lodge area @ Deer Park & parked in parking lot which is right near the eastern TH for the Mid Mountain trail. Big ego palaces cover the mountainside. Hope to sleep unrousted.

Visited Cole’s sporting shop in Park City to buy trail map.