>>266088Around 4800 miles in 10 weeks. Around 2 of those week were spent off the bike, hiking. I averaged around 80 miles a day until I started riding with a few other people I met on the road who liked to go a little bit slower.
Stealth camping can give you a lot of flexibility as far as pace is concerned. If you want to stay in a campground, town park or motel every night then you'll have the legs of the trip broken up before you start riding. Finding natural water sources along the road wasn't terribly common in the west, so I had to be sure to fill up on water before setting up camp.
Water varies from region to region, as one might expect. Throughout most of the trip, I passed through towns often enough that I could refill as often as I needed, carrying a capacity of around 4 L. In eastern Oregon, parts of Montana and almost all of Wyoming, both towns and natural sources are pretty scarce, so I had to plan a bit more carefully. I only had one day when I ran uncomfortably low.
My filter came in handy pretty often, especially in Idaho (pic related). Riding and camping along the Snake, Salmon and Lochsa rivers was probably my favorite part of the trip.
