Mongolia Bike Challenge
Day Off Goes to the Dogs
Cory Wallace / 12.08.2011
Throughout the day racers were taking the chance to lounge around, wash clothes in the river, clean water bottles, go over there bikes and relax in any way possible. Many riders opted to hike around the hills checking out old gher camps while a few of us hopped on our bikes to spin out our legs.
By mid afternoon word had gotten around the valley that there were a bunch of aliens camped out in yellow tents and we were joined by a bunch of locals. The first to show up were a couple of kids on their horses who were immediately welcomed into camp.
On my ride I went out to check the first part of the course for stage 7. 1 km into it I came across a gher camp on my left, with a huge Yak herd on my right. This turned out to be a bad place to be as two dogs came charging out of the gher hut and put the charge in an effort to protect their herd.
I tried to hammer away but these dogs were well fed and on a mission. There was no getting away so I stopped, hucked a water bottle at one dog, and then used my bike as a shield. This kept the Mongol dogs at bay and soon one retreated back home, while the other kept on the attack for 10 minutes. I slowly backed away and was finally able to continue on my ride and get back to camp. Not quite the relaxing day I’d hoped for!
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