I'm sure there's some great touring out there, but haven't done much of it myself. When I lived there it was mainly hiking that we did. Most of the time when we headed out of town, it was to a hot springs over in Idaho (Weyr I think... I know how to pronounce it, never did know how it was spelled - awesome spot on the side of a cliff in the middle of old growth cedar trees) I'm not sure how the highways are for bikes, but heard that they were working on getting a rails to trails thing going from Missoula out to at least CourDeLane (sp?)... I wouldn't want to tour eastern MT though - just flat farmland.

Still, it surprised me to see his name here. That bike shop never seemed busy. It must have been people in the know and touring that gave them the money they needed to stay afloat. There were a lot of other local shops that had a lot more business.

I wonder what he is doing now?