I found that if I stand in just the right place in the parking lot and point my phone in the right direction, and hold my mouth just right, I have pretty good service. Verizon is better than I thought.
We are resting at Tetsa River Services and Campground (famous for their cinnamon buns) after about 27 miles today. We stopped early so we will be ready for another climb tomorrow to the top. Our GPS is N58-40.977 W123-46.108, Elev 2592. Our climb tomorrow will be about 1750 ft.in 16 miles. Grades are between 6-10%. After the climb we are planning another short day with a stop at Rocky Mountain Lodge at milepost 378. On Tuesday we are planning another short day (this could become a habit) to The Poplars Campground at milepost 407.5. The next stop will probably be at Muncho lake at milepost 436.6.
Since I have been rounding the daily miles, I will give the actual total as of today -- 2623.9. Skagway is only about 560 miles away and we are ahead of schedule, so we are on a slow-down and enjoy program.
We haven't seen any more black bears and that is just fine with me.
If you would like to take a look at our terrain, check out http://tinyurl.com/cjgm39 or check out Donnal's blog at http://vicarious-triker.blogspot.com, or follow the link from this blog to his.
The mosquitos are getting bigger by the day and so many sit on our tent netting that it turns it black.
We rode past miles of wild strawberries in full bloom. I wouldn't want to be riding there is a few weeks when the bears are grazing on all those berries.
There are so few hours of darkness now that we are wearing sleep masks at night.
Time for a good game of cribbage now. I'll write again whenever cell service pops up.