In the summer of 2009 James Pilachowski, Sam Townsend, and Aaron Smith decided to protest their entry into the real world with a bike trip across America. This is their story.

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

Day 4 - The Ascent

Distance - 74.2 miles
Max Velocity - 40.9 mph




The first 32 miles was a grueling ordeal of almost non stop climbing. There were a couple points where we actually were going downhill, but this was a bad thing because we would have to re-climb any distance we went down.
We finally peaked at 5,477 ft at Washington Pass, and then we began the fun part of the day: the descent.
The next 10 to 15 miles were all downhill, and we probably averaged 35 mph for the duration. We passed through Winthrop, where apparetly all the buildings need to look like the wild west section of Busch Gardens, until we ended up in Twisp, which is smaller than the name implies. The guy who runs the sprinklers in the park talked to us ad told us where we could sleep and not get wet. Tomorrow should be fairly flat, so we're hoping to make some good distance.

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