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Here's a look at a storm which blew me out of Baker City. It rained a lot in Eastern Oregon. They get 10 inches a year, and 3 of them fell when I was in the neighborhood.
Around Baker City I took my first break days, a week into the trip. A spoke came out of my rear wheel back in the Cascades, which I got repaired shortly thereafter, but the guy at the bike shop told me that my rear hub had issues.
I wasn't about to dump $100 on a new rear hub based on one guys opinion, so I asked for another at a bike shop here. He told me the last guy was full of shit, and cleaned it out for me.
It was also here that I met my comrades for the first time. We rode together for two days, but split up when they wanted to hit Missoula on the 4th of July and I needed to be in Grand Teton national park by the 6th.
