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The maps will answer most of your questions

Thanks for your reply Harry, but I do have copy of the maps, and haven't been able to find the answers to the questions I asked.

We are still in the preliminary planning for a trip on this loop.

We will be flying in on a Saturday  at the end of July, and flying out the next Sunday for 9 total days, two of which will be travel days.

I'm thinking we would be doing 60 mile days, and want to take one rest day to give us some flexibility to get back to the airport in time.

So that would be approximately 350 miles.  Which means we could do maybe half of this loop.

So here are my questions: 

Is 60 miles reasonable for a daily average. (I did a short loaded hilly road tour last year and did 70 80 mile days)
As there any place we can find the elevation gain of each segment? (for instance the Ketchum-Stanley section)
Can someone give me an idea of what the road surfaces will be like?
Is the Lowman cutoff paved?  Is there a lot of elevation gain on it? Would you allow one day to do it?
Most importantly, if you could do only part(half) of the loop, which half would you choose and why?

Thanks in advance for answers to any or all of these questions.

 

I have looked at some of the directions, and tried to follow along with my Planet Earth ap, to no avail.  Are there other maps of the area that would help in navigation?  Maybe the national forest visitor maps?  If so which ones?

Would a GPS work in these areas?

I'm really not a fisherman, but might like to try it.  Is there a chance I would be able to catch any thing, or would I have to get work on my skill set to have a realistic chance of success. 

Advice needed,

We hope to do the route this year.  Since we are having to fly in and fly out, we need a good idea of miles per day we can achieve.  We plan to stay on the main route and not do any of the single track.  Does anyone know what the surface of the roads will be like.  Will we be OK for the most part with no suspension on the dirt roads.

We will probable only have 10 days.  So I don't think we would be able to do the whole thing.  If we cut off part of the route, what would part of the ride would you leave out.

Thanks in advance!