We stopped in Dubois and stocked up on sweet snacks. We decided that sugar was absolutely necessary if we were going to climb up a 10,000+ foot high mountain. Pudding snacks (the Bannana cream pie is the best) and chocolate chip cookies are all that two very stubborn people need to bike 80 miles through mountains.
Ben insisted on taking most of the gear and proudly piled the back of his bike rediculously high with the extra gear that my bike apparently couldn't handle biking up the pass. (My road bike gears aren't too efficient when going up steep inclines.) I got a taste of fresh melting mountain snow in July and scenery so beautiful it made the climb totally worth it. 
After four hours of intense uphill biking, we were rewarded by 15 miles of flying downhill. At the bottom, we made it to the edge of the Grand Teton National park and had completed our goal of making it there by the 4th of July. We biked 250 miles in the past three days and felt on top of the world.
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