Bike Tour Day 3

Adair to Fern Lake/Richardson County Park, 51 miles, 1000 elevation
  Amazing 5 foot shoulder traveling along Hwy 99 going south. Nice buffer with the heavy traffic.  Day temperatures are climbing into the miserable range, between 90 and 100.
  Silly me, I thought a route called the Apple Trail was a bike trail. Most elevation today was on this 4 or 5 mile stretch. It turned out to be a road with climbs between 7 and 8 percent.  Well on a road bike maybe that's not so much but consider that Stanley weighs about 68 pounds fully loaded, plus the heat. 
  Fern Lake indeed has hiker biker sites, but it's just an area on the edge of the common green space area and adjacent to big tent city.  I was able to find an empty site and use the power to charge up my Garmin. 
  Speaking of Garmin Edge 830, I had pre loaded my daily routes and found this extremely helpful for navigation except for the few times it went crazy and told me to make a U turn, repeatedly. I could still be in Salem making the same U turns if I had not started ignoring Garmin. Eventually it self corrected. If I head straight to the coast tomorrow instead of stopping for the night in Deadwood, I will have two days in one spot.
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