Mile Marker 69: We woke up at 530 or 600 and we left at 830. Cole woke up to a flat. We had breakfast in the Korean convenient store museum. Breakfast was 1st gen Wolfgang Puck chicken noodle soup with pesto—David: "the pesto, it just makes it", peanut butter, 200 ct. tortillas. Tortilla debate: Hahn only wants to bring 8 tortillas and leave the other 190 tortillas in the Index cabin. All agrees that the entire remaining inventory of cheese should come with us. Cole used the tortillas as paper towels.

Mile Marker 79: Oh! There you are road!

Mile Marker 70: When you leave Index, the road will look like this for a few miles. We are 100% sure that that there is a really good chance that it is always this wet.

Mile Marker 76: Hey road, where'dya go?

Mile Marker 76: As you can see the Index to Galena road is washed out and has been since the Skykomish River flooded in 2006. There are funding issues, environmental assessments, and even Mother Nature herself is standing in the way to fixing the road. It’s going to take 5-10 years to fix, and over 15 million dollars to complete. The road is washed out for about 7 miles. Doing some quick math, thats roughly 2 million dollars a mile. If our estimations are correct, and they rarely are, just the section here from photographer to Broveteer's must be around 150k.

Mile Marker 77:Taking the piss is a Commonwealth term meaning to take liberties at the expense of others, or to be unreasonable. "

Mile Marker 77: Contrary to popular belief, water transfer sections are the real reason that serious road cyclist go through all the effort to remove unnecessary and uncomely hair from their legs. Hydrodynamic testing has proven that there is a 30-40 watt saving per submerged step when water is calf high or above. It doesn't take a hydrodynamic engineer to figure out that at the end a typical road race shaving one's legs translates to BIG energy savings.

Mile Marker 78: "Mind the gap" is an audible or visual warning phrase issued to rail passengers in the UK to take caution while crossing the gap between the train door and the station platform. It was first introduced in 1969 on the London Underground in the United Kingdom. The phrase is also associated with souvenir T-shirts that Transport for London sells, featuring the warning printed over the network's rounded logo.

Mile Marker 74: Jerzey Boyz.

Mile Marker 80: Jack's Knob (Pass) is the worst gravel climb ever, Daniel hates it and wonders why Hahn has made hime do it twice. Knowing Hahn and knowing Daniel, no one else wonders why Hahn would make Daniel climb Jack's Knob Pass again.

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Mile Marker 88: Looking at this set of images it would be fair to say that those with mustaches and those that are trees appear to be significantly less nervous then those that are not trees and do not have mustaches.

Mile Marker 88:This is a still from a David Marchi Youtube video in which David demonstrates how to open a can with chipseal. David goes on to demonstrate how to eat can's contents cold. The way he savors each bit convinces the rest of our band that this is indeed one way to consume our canned goods, but we have to wonder, can we heat ours up?

Mile Marker 88:Cole ate grilled cheese and skippy honey pb burrito dipped in soup #sporklife

Mile Marker 88: Def one hell of an inviting road shoulder picnic.

Mile Marker 92: It is important to note that Great Northern’s logo was a Mountain Goat and they laid down iron tracks: hence the name Iron Goat.

Mile Marker 92: In the late 1800’s, a bridge was needed to bridge the gap between Seattle’s ports and everything in the Eastern US. The Great Northern Rail Company heeded the call and wanted to put in rails that stretched from Minneapolis-St. Paul through the Northern Cascades, via present day Stephens Pass, on to Seattle.

Mile Marker 94: The Great Northern enlisted John Frank Stevens (who later became the chief engineer for the Panama Canal, and who Stevens’ pass is named after) to accomplish the task.

Mile Marker 96: The first tracks that were laid by the Great Northern followed the ruts of wagon roads used by pioneers.

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Mile Marker 110: A diverse group went to work for Great Northern on making this a reality. Chinese, Japanese, Swedes, Irishers, Germans, and East Coasters climbed up to the Northern Cascades to bleed and sweat for a man-made Northwestern Passage.

Mile Marker 113: Stevens Pass sits at 4,061 feet.

Mile Marker 113: We arrived to Stevens Pass Cafe four hours behind schedule, at 4:15pm. The sign on the door said open open daily 8am-4pm.

Mile Marker 113:"Contrary to popular belief, the dark swirl in a loaf of marble rye is not pumpernickel. Rather, it’s the same rye bread as the light swirl, but made darker with added cocoa powder."

Mile Marker 113: Cole, you look super-duper nice.

Mile Marker 113: #floorsandwich

Mile Marker 113: Team meeting to discuss the fact that we're cold, wet, behind schedule and in the middle of a river.

Mile Marker 113: Newly appointed athletic costuming choices were made after spending an hour drying off in the Stevens Pass lodge,

Mile Marker 149: More or less.

Mile Marker 149: A Google search of "seductive licking" yields about 3,140,000 results in (0.37 seconds)

Mile Marker 149: A Google search of "Bing" to Bing search "seductive licking" yields about 297,000,000 results in (0.24 seconds) A Bing search of "seductive licking" yields 2,680,000. Search time was not revealed.

Mile Marker 149: While not well known in the states the "the tired dog" resting position can be quite an effective posturing measure in certain specific situations. Unfortunately the staff at Icicle Brewing Co thought that David was "passing out" at the bar and asked us to leave.

Mile Marker 149: A list of things not allowed at Leavenworth's Octoberfest Festhalle: Bota Bags or Alcohol Coolers Drugs & Drug Paraphernalia Fireworks/Explosives Knives/Weapons/Guns Outside Food or Beverage (All bags will be checked) Professional Cameras NO PETS allowed inside the Oktoberfest compound (licensed ADA assistants excepted).

Mile Marker 149: After visiting the thematically adroit town of Solvang, business owners Owen and Pauline Watson, formed the Project LIFE (Leavenworth Improvement For Everyone) Committee with the intent of turning Leavenworth into Bavarian theme town. At a macro level they enjoy a degree of success.

Mile Marker 149: Cha Brah!

Mile Marker 149:Cole Maness - by Milton Glaser

Mile Marker 149: Evidence on the Oxford English Corpus shows the word selfie in use by 2003, but further research shows the earliest usage (so far anyway) as far back as 2002. Its use was, fittingly enough, in an online source – an Australian internet forum. 2002 ABC Online (forum posting) 13 Sept. “Um, drunk at a mates 21st, I tripped ofer [sic] and landed lip first (with front teeth coming a very close second) on a set of steps. I had a hole about 1cm long right through my bottom lip. And sorry about the focus, it was a selfie.” #selfie

Mile Marker 149: We were introduced to our Taxi driver through a drunk. After talking to him on the phone he said he would take us for forty bucks a head.

Mile Marker 149:The taxi driver's his last name is Parton and he is related to Dolly, "met her in the 70s", owns the taxi with a bro, was a logger, at ten his dad gave him the keys to a logging truck and said "hey you're a logging driver," his dad retired at 87. Last name Parton has four kids, he once stalked a deer for four years, it was an award winning deer. And he accidentally stalked the deer towards his friend who wound up killing it. He shows us a picture of it while hydroplaning the van at 75 mph in the pitch black forest night. Additionally he has a tic that causes him to jerk the wheel every thirty minutes or so.

Mile Marker 149: Sleep is what everyone wanted, to be able to put the mind on pause. Cole, Daniel, David and even these bikes had the chance to sleep, and sleep they did right through our wild, white knuckle, hydroplaning, death hustle from Leavenworth to Chelan. Hahn on the other hand wasn't in a position to be privileged with sleep, as he was forced to ride shotgun and was obliged to engage our driver in conversation throughout the duration of our commute.