The Vitals Date: May 18 – 20, 2024 Location: Kamloops, BC Distance: ~200 km Time: 3 days Resources: Bikepacking.com The Summary The past few years have been low on bikepacking trips but we have managed a couple of routes from bikepacking.com including the Cowichan 8 and Texada Island routes. Part of the reason was a […]
The Vitals Date: July 1 – 5, 2023 Location: Upper Sunshine Coast and Texada Island Partners: Brittany Resources: Bikepacking.com Powell River Sampler and Bikepacking.com Texada Photos: Brittany The Trip Day 1 – Saltery Bay to Inland Lake Provincial Park (44 km/44 km total) Saturday morning of Canada Day long weekend meant an early wakeup call […]
The Vitals Date: September 5 – 18, 2022 Location: Basel CH to Delft NL Distance: ~730 km cycled and 200 km train Partners: Brittany Resources: Eurovelo gps tracks, Guidebook by Mike Wells. We carried a paper copy of the guidebook. Great to read ahead on the segments with little fun facts and good routing suggestions […]
The Vitals Date: August 30 to September 5, 2022 Location: Zurich CH to Basel CH Distance: ~520 km cycled and 90 km train Partners: Brittany Resources: Eurovelo gps tracks, Guidebook by Mike Wells. We carried a paper copy of the guidebook. Great to read ahead on the segments with little fun facts and good routing […]
The Vitals Date: April 14-17, 2022 Location: Lower Vancouver Island Distance: ~250 km Photos: Brittany Resources: Bikepacking.com The Trip It’s been a long winter and an even longer break since we had gone camping or done a bike trip longer than one night. Easter weekend was looking okay in terms of weather and it seemed […]
Photo of seaside riding next to the Dardanelles looking across to Gallipoli. The note from the policeman was in Turkish but it was 2012 and we were travelling without a stove, let alone a phone with a data plan. The day had begun sunny and warm as I and my cycling partner rode along the […]
The Vitals Date: May 22-23, 2021 Location: Birkenhead Distance: ~100 km Partner: Brittany Bears: 4 Photos: Brittany The Trip Saturday Night Lake Loop is a ~25km trail in Jasper National Park that Brittany and I rode in 2016. We did not have a good time as we slipped and skidded over greasy roots in clouds […]
The Vitals Date: August 30 – September 3, 2020 Location: Fernie, BC Distance: ~270 km Partner: Brittany Resources: Ride with GPS Route Photos: Brittany The Trip Labour day is the traditional end to the summer season. The days are usually warm, but not hot, and you can put all the fitness you gained in a […]
The Vitals Date: August 9 – 10, 2020 Location: Coquihalla/Tulameen, BC Distance: ~105 km Partner: Brittany Resources: Strava route Photos: Brittany The Trip Brittany spent three quiet weeks this summer in a town of 250 people in northern BC but when she returned on a Saturday she was looking to get out and do something […]
The Vitals Date: June 20 – 21, 2020 Location: Vancouver to Whistler, BC Distance: ~130 km Partners: Brittany, Will, Matt, Dawn, Michael Resources: Indian Arm to Squamish, Squamish to Whistler Photos: Brittany The Trip In 2017 and 2018 I participated in the local incarnation of the “Swift Campout” solstice weekend bike and camp outing. The […]
The Vitals Date: December 6, 2019 Location: Sunshine Coast Distance: ~65 km (about 25 km of single track), ~1300 meters climbed Photos: Brittany Resources: Trailforks, bikepacking.com The Trip With the dreaded shoulder season dragging on and on, Brittany and I rented a house in Sechelt for the weekend with friends. To make it more interesting, […]
Radical Sabbatical
The Vitals Dates: June 19 – August 2, 2019 Location: Japan to Ontario Photos by Brittany Total Route Section 1 Riding Summary Section 2 Riding Summary Section 3 Riding Summary Section 4 Riding Summary The Trip We left Vancouver on August 6, 2018 and we returned nearly one year later on August 2, 2019. In the […]
Riding Stats South Korea Japan Total km 978 812 Riding Days 14 13 km/riding day 69.9 62.5 Total days 22 24 km/day 44.5 33.8 Days Camping 10 10 Days through WarmShowers 3 3 (2 were also camping) Days in Hotels 8 13 Days Other 1 (overnight ferry) 0 Longest Day: 107 km (Aso to 23 km […]
The Vitals Dates: June 4 – June 18, 2019 Location: Fukuoka – Osaka, Japan Distance: 812 km Photos by Brittany Total Route The Trip We woke up at 5:00 a.m. when the lights and the TV in our cabin flicked on by some authority beyond our control. The previous night we had boarded the New Camellia […]
The Vitals Dates: May 13 – June 3, 2019 Location: Incheon to Busan, South Korea Distance: 978 km Photos by Brittany Total Route The Trip South Korea might be the easiest place to bike tour in the world. Let me enumerate the reasons: 70% of the bicycle network is on cycle-only roads On the cross-country route […]