DAY 20

Finally we received our reward for all that climbing. We woke up, got on our bikes and didn't pedal for 6 miles. 

This descent brought us down into the town of Kettle Falls. From here we rode through colville and up towards some more forestry terrain. 

In colville national Forest there is a beautiful group of "chain lakes". So we picked the first one we saw and rode down to it. 

And we went swimming. 

Then we finally got to do some riding off the pavement. 

Our skinny tires weren't happy about some parts but it was fun. 

Out of NOWHERE a big ol storm cloud floated over us. We quickly pulled off the highway an into the woods where we hastily set up camp. It rained and even hailed a bit and there was thunder and lightning but we survived the night.