We said good-bye to Alina and Bub yesterday, and today I packed up all my gear and began the rest of the journey north to Belden, where I had earlier started from. We rode down and across the highway near Sierra City, then faced a very long, hot, steep climb back up the other side. But the upside of the day was the campsite we had in the evening at beautiful and serene Deer Lake, which made up for the difficulties earlier in the day.

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