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USA 2016 Bicycle Touring

Down to the Last Drop in the Arizona Desert

Down to the Last Drop in the Arizona Desert

I was down to my last half liter of water.  Bumping along a rough track in the Arizona desert, this lack of H2o was some cause for distress.   We ought to be passing a ranch about now. But where was

World Biking March 11, 2017March 11, 2017 Tour Updates, USA 2016 Bicycle Touring No Comments Read more

Mount Lemmon: A 500 Kilometer Detour up Arizona’s Most Thrilling Climb

Mount Lemmon: A 500 Kilometer Detour up Arizona’s Most Thrilling Climb

Most cyclists dream of biking through massive mountain ranges.  The Carreterra Austral in the Andes, the Leh-Manali road through the Indian Himalayas and Central Asia’s Pamir Highway consistently top the lists of favorite cycling spots. Desert cycling rarely makes the

World Biking February 26, 2017February 26, 2017 Tour Updates, USA 2016 Bicycle Touring 2 Comments Read more

Complications at the Border

Complications at the Border

We were stuck on the border between Mexico and the United States.  Officials on the American side didn’t see reason to let my French husband back in the country. No, Eric hadn’t done anything wrong.  He’s got a B-2 visitor

World Biking February 24, 2017February 25, 2017 Tour Updates, USA 2016 Bicycle Touring 10 Comments Read more

GDMBR New Mexico: Battling Mother Nature

GDMBR New Mexico: Battling Mother Nature

The Final Hurdles After conquering Great Divide Route’s highest point,  Indiana Pass at 11,910 feet, you’d think riders could let out a sigh of relief.  The tough stuff as over.  They’d  glide across New Mexico and sail across the Mexcian

World Biking October 23, 2016February 4, 2017 Great Divide Mountain Biking Route, Tour Updates, USA 2016 Bicycle Touring 2 Comments Read more

Biking the Great Divide: Colorado

Biking the Great Divide: Colorado

After the vast empty spaces and rolling hills of Wyoming’s Great Basin, we were ready to test our mettle on some big mountains.  Colorado called.  The Cowboy State is home to the Great Divide’s most momentous climb: Indiana Pass (11,913

World Biking September 24, 2016December 28, 2016 Great Divide Mountain Biking Route, Tour Updates, USA 2016 Bicycle Touring No Comments Read more

Big Mountains and the Big Empty: GDMBR Wyoming

Big Mountains and the Big Empty:  GDMBR Wyoming

  As we zipped past the towering peaks of the Tetons, hail pelted us with a devious force.  We were cold and under normal circumstances we’d have been miserable.  Not today.  The Tetons rose before us, and we were awestruck

World Biking August 31, 2016December 28, 2016 Great Divide Mountain Biking Route, Tour Updates, USA 2016 Bicycle Touring, Wyoming Bicycle Touring No Comments Read more

Great Divide Mountain Bike Route: Montana Moments

Great Divide Mountain Bike Route: Montana Moments

  The world’s longest off-road bicycle touring route: 2768.4 miles (4455.3 km) beginning in Banff, Canada and continuing across the spine of the continent all the way to the Mexican border. Crossing the Continental Divide thirty times, the Great Divide Mountain Bike

World Biking August 26, 2016December 28, 2016 Great Divide Mountain Biking Route, Montana Bicycle Touring, Tour Updates, USA 2016 Bicycle Touring No Comments Read more

Idaho Hot Springs Route

Idaho Hot Springs Route

In 2014, Adventure Cycling unveiled what promised to be one of America’s most beautiful and challenging bicycles touring routes: the Idaho Hot Springs Mountain Biking Route. The Idaho Hot Springs Mountain Bike Route guides riders over and through the breathtaking

World Biking August 12, 2016December 31, 2016 Idaho Hot Springs Mountain Biking Route, Tour Updates, USA 2016 Bicycle Touring 8 Comments Read more

Biking Eastern Oregon: the Stunning Steens Mountain Loop

Biking Eastern Oregon: the Stunning Steens Mountain Loop

“The most stunning, unique route in Oregon.” Who’d want to miss that?  Not us.  Bikepacking Oregon’s enthusiastic praise had us sold: Steens Mountain is one of the most spectacular places anywhere.  The dramatic rise of this fault block mountain above the

World Biking July 3, 2016December 31, 2016 Tour Updates, USA 2016 Bicycle Touring 4 Comments Read more

Biking Oregon’s Old West Scenic Bikeway and Beyond

Biking Oregon’s Old West Scenic Bikeway and Beyond

Private Road.  No Trespassing. We’d learned to love navigating with online maps, but his time they’d steered us wrong. Did we continue?  No way. We were riding Eastern Oregon, a place some claim is the Redneck Capital of America.  Most

World Biking June 28, 2016December 31, 2016 Tour Updates, USA 2016 Bicycle Touring No Comments Read more
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