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Before leaving Marathon, Shaun and I went to Extra Foods to stock up on more food. I mostly just needed snacks and fruit because I bought enough food in Thunder Bay to last me my main meals for almost a week. Just as important as these snack foods was the bug spray I bought. My small container had run out on me.

After the 4km hill out of Marathon and another 20km at a leisurely pace on much flatter roads, Shaun and I stopped to exchange e-mail and other information because he wanted to ride further than me today and had to go at a faster pace in order to get there. A while after that I stopped at the edge of the road and climbed a rock outcropping to have lunch in some shade without being directly on the road either. The hills aren’t as bad today as they have been for the last few days.

There wasn’t much else on the road until White River, the town where Winnie the Pooh began. It also happens to have the coldest recorded temperature in Canada, -58°C. I had a root beer milkshake at A&W before heading on further to a rest area about 10km outside of town. I had dinner and read at a picnic table until the sun started to set before setting up my tent. The weather has gotten warmer now that I am no longer on the shore of the lake and I didn’t want to have my tent heat up from the sun.