Day 20
It was a long day, 76 miles, but pleasant. I got started before 7 am to beat the heat and the wind, and rolled into Jordan, Montana a little after 4 pm. The Great Plains here are Great Rolling Plains. Strava tells me that I climbed 3000 feet today, but it was mostly pretty gentle ups and downs and not too taxing. I started seeing butterflies again for the first time since crossing the continental divide. Before that I had been seeing a lot of tiger swallowtails and pale swallowtails (one even got caught in my helmet), but since then nothing. Today I saw a lot of fritillaries. I keep hoping to see my first monarch, since I’ve started seeing the milkweed on which it depends, but none yet.