Met Pete and Andy at Encanto, and went up the 39 to the East Fork to check out the Camp Williams Fire damage. The fire did not damage much of the scenery for cyclists in the area, burning the hills to the north from the East Fork road. Pete jokingly challenged me on the climb up the north side of GMR, and I went at it in earnest. Pete evidently went up hard also because, during dinner, he lamented several times the short climb to start up GRR from the village; I thought he was joking until he filled up both of his water bottles with Coke as we prepared to leave the lodge, where we had another enjoyable dinner. Andy had a flat on the way back, and he hit a rock in a corner while descending that gave him a scare. It was dark well before we even reached the village, and was quite late by the time we made it back to the cars. Awesome ride with good friends.