Base of Lost and Found trailhead

In the morning at the house I washed our stinky riding clothes and made breakfast. We set out around 10 and quickly realized we stopped at a good point the night before as the hill before us went up and up and up, about 350meters. I walked a lot of it, it was very steep. By 2pm or so we came across a restaurant. But the food was not very good, either overdone or old but we were hungry and needed calories. At the restaurant there were dozens of golden orb spiders hanging about, really creepy. Carrying on uphill it alternated between raining and pleasant weather. We stopped at two roadside waterfalls; Angel 1 and 2. Both were really pretty and Rigel filled his water bottle at the first which happened to be Angel 2.

It was starting to get late around 4-4:30 and we were still pretty far from where we wanted to end up and it was starting to rain and get a little chilly, we were after all at app. 950 meters, so I decided to try and get a ride up to the Lost and Found Lodge. A few tries later a guy pulls over in a truck, but doesn't appear to have much room with all the wooden crates he has stacked in the truck bed. We told him this but he said we'll try. He completely rearranges his load and fits our bikes in nicely and straps them down. We got to ride in the cab this time and got to enjoy some good conversation (well what we could understand that is). We were about a half hour ride away from the hostel so we really wouldn't have made it by bike that night. Young stoped at the hydro dam for us to take pictures and we got to pick up a pineapple ($1) at the little stand before carrying on.

Arriving at the bottom of the hill to the hostel Young gave us the option of riding with him to David or getting off here. We hummed and hawed over the option but decided we wanted the downhill coming up out of the mountains. We unloaded and went over to the office there. We were immediately asked if we wanted to stay with this other company in a cabin for a heck of a lot of money but we declined. The hostel is a 20 minute hike uphill and it wouldn't be easy with bikes so we asked to camp under their office roof/fruit stand. Thomas let us, and over the course of the evening gave us bananas and coffee. We paid $5 for the camping. Thomas noticed Rigel's bike tire pump, asked to use it and soon Rigel turned into the bike mechanic for the night pumping up tires and fixing the holes.

By the time Rigel finished with the kids bikes he was tired (since we hadn't had supper yet) and bonked his face pretty good on a low beam. I fixed him up best I could and Thomas gave us some alcohol to put on it and also realized we hadn't eaten yet. He later came by with a plate of food from his own table. It was very generous of him. We were able to go straight to bed after we ate.