Day 14 - ?, ID to St. Regis, MT

As we prepared to ride the additional four miles down the gravel road to Avery, ID, we discovered that a critter had eaten the chinstrap and the lining off Diana's helmet.  She secured it with some Velcro until we arrived in Avery where the owner of the local store gave her some string, which worked the next two days until we reached civilization.  We headed east along the beautiful St. Joe river for about 20 miles until we turned northeast and began another difficult climb over Gold pass back into Montana.  That made our third crossing of the Bitterroot Mountains; Lookout Pass on I-90, back through the tunnel on the Hiawatha Trail and again over Gold Pass.  We also essentially cross the Cascades twice, at Snoqualmie and Blewett.  We plan on crossing the Rockies only once.  After 62 tough miles, we settled into a nice RV park in St. Regis.