Rest Day in Republic, WA

We went across the Wauconda Pass yesterday and down into Republic. This was the fourth consecutive pass we have climbed. To date we have crossed Rainy, Washington, Loup Loup and Wauconda Passes. All of these require climbing several thousand feet at a pretty steep grade and slow speed. Tomorrow we will climb the highest pass in the Washington Cascades-Sherman Pass 5,575 feet I believe. Fortunately Republic is several thousand feet in elevation so the Sherman Pass climb will be around 15 miles. The toughest to date was the Rainy and Washington Pass which were a few miles apart but took us all day to climb the 31 miles to the summit. Everyone is in good spirit and we have met several bikers, John from California who is going cross country to Bar Harbor, Maine and Austin from Walla Walla who is headed to Alaska.