USNA 1973 Ride-2-Remember

Day 18, 21 August: Rexburg, ID

A welcome Day 18 of rest and catching up. The laundry at our hotel wasn’t working but they let us use the one next door.  The weather was nice but changeable.  A sudden squall in the afternoon, otherwise sunny but windy with additional storms in the distance. 

Four of us went to the Teton House restaurant, another of Dave’s discoveries in a nearby town.  Quite a setting, with a hand-carved bar and a very distinguished caribou.  Great food as well and we toasted Jim and Don.

We returned for evening quarters and the more formal honors for them.  Tomorrow we ride for Jim Radney, another operational loss who died when his SH-2 crashed off Key West in 1982. The rest of the crew survived.

The weather is a bit iffy but the route is straightforward tomorrow: 57.2 miles and 2207 ft of climb to Victor but nothing steep.  Hopefully a relatively easy ride.

Bill Montgomery