Day 7: Stanley to Fir Creek CG - Racpat Bailed out of Great Divide 2022 - CycleBlaze

July 1, 2022

Day 7: Stanley to Fir Creek CG

"We are hosts for the area. How are you folks?" A couple drop by at Fir Creek Campground, and we chat awhile. "582 just opened last week", they say. We hadn't thought that the road might not be open. 

They are from Ohio and are campground hosts for the area of Forest Service campgrounds. As we talk, they tell us they also have their horses with them. We tell them we stayed at the Wrangler's Camp in Land between the Lakes in KY in 2017 on our last tour. They worked there for 9 years.

Early this morning, we leave Stanley after a nice breakfast at the restaurant.  We turn off Hwy 21 just below Banner Summit onto Bear Valley road up to the summit of Cape Horn. Then continuing on road 579, we descend following Fir creek to a Forest Service Campground.

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Purple flowers look like water in the meadow
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Not quite to Banner Summit, we will turn off Hwy 21 onto Boundary Road (579) before reaching that summit.
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Bill ShaneyfeltLooks like white mule's ears.

https://fieldguide.mt.gov/speciesDetail.aspx?elcode=PDAST9X080
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Onto Bear Valley Road (579)
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Almost to Cape Horn summit
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And then the downhill. Sometimes is just as painful as the uphill.

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We turn off road 579 and to the Forest Service Fir Creek Campground.

We arrive at Fir Creek Campground.
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We first set up in another site until the shade disappears and then move to here. 

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Bill ShaneyfeltButterfly is a checkerspot. Likely Edith's checkerspot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith%27s_checkerspot

Flowers maybe a kind of groundsel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundsel

Nice shot!
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Bill ShaneyfeltMight be Wilson's prickly phlox.

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/569448-Linanthus-watsonii
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Bill ShaneyfeltShooting star.

https://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/taxa/index.php?taxon=922
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Today's ride: 31 miles (50 km)
Total: 318 miles (512 km)

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