After a wonderful very early breakfast we set out to climb White Bird pass. Along the way we stopped at the Nez Perce battleground. During this battle, no Indians were killed but 35 soldiers lost their lives. A dog ran out at us and I used my air horn which made it stop. Then we realized a herd of sheep had taken off running also. During the 28 switchbacks I kept wanting to take pictures because it was breathtaking. We've been seeing many dead birds along the road. Recently we've been seeing more dead snakes. When we talked to the Boy Scouts, we compared what we had been seeing along the road. We all agreed that Bob and I probably see more because we are so close to the ground. The other day we saw a whole set of keys. The scout leader figured it was probably a boyfriend / girlfriend fight. Every hour Bob and I switched who had to pull the Burley / anchor up the mountain. Two days ago we rode 50 miles. Yesterday we went 40 so we could start at the bottom of White Bird. The locals had told us it was seven miles up. Wrong! At mile 13 we reach the summit 6 hours later. It was nearing a 100 degrees with no shade. On the way down there was some shade which was nice. Bob was ahead of me and as he rounded a curve he yelled stop! During our 6 our trip up only two ranchers passed us at the beginning. We had not seen anybody else the whole day. So I couldn't imagine why bob was yelling stop. Then I saw the back end of something very large hoping it wasn't an elk. I was very glad when I realized it was a herd of cows. They were blocking the whole road and we couldn't get through. We started riding a little closer to them hoping to get them to move. At one point I must have gotten a little too close and they started stampeding down the road! Then all of a sudden they went to one side and we were able to slip by them. As usual the downhill was great and we were able to finish our ride into Bear Den RV Park in Grangeville. That was the hardest 22 miles we've ever done. We've done a century which is a hundred miles in a day and this day was worse. Since we got into camp earlier in the day, we rode into town and ate supper at 3. Then we went back to the campground, did laundry and went to bed by 7.