June 19th, day 18, from bozeman to w. Yellowstone.

the day was supposed to be 90 miles but due to the amount of traffic and the narrow shoulders we decided to rack past 30 miles in the name of safety. it just happened to be to the top of a steep hill. from the top of the hill everyone thought that the day would be easy since we cut 30 miles out of the ride, but instead it was extremely hard. once we got going we ended up hitting a headwind that pushed us down to about 11 mph the whole way, so in the end it was kind of a good thing that we racked or we might not have made it in time for out dinner reservations.

west Yellowstone is a pretty small town based mostly on tourism. we stayed in the high school which was k-12, they had a graduating class of 11. not much else happened in west Yellowstone other that preparation for the next day.