Matanuska Valley
| 13:12 UK time, Sunday, 28 June 2009
For the last couple of days I have been crossing the Talkeetna Mountains in an area called the Matanuska Valley. Apart from a huge glacier this is mainly vast scrubby forest surrounded by mountains.
Needless to say there has been a lot of climbing, which I was prepared for. What I wasn't prepared for was the freezing rain. It rained on my tent all last night and I kept waking hoping it would ease. Today a headwind made the hills even slower going than expected and by mile twenty had to stop, frozen through with the torrential rain.
Later today I heard that there had been a severe weather warning out for the area. Sure enough as I came off the high ground at the end of the day the rain eventually stopped but I have never ridden in such cold, wintery conditions at the end of June. It was pretty miserable and I will be glad to not do more of that!
Physically feeling good and starting to get my cycling legs back.
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