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: July 1-3, 2022 Location: Clinton, BC Distance: ~150 km in 1 long and two short rides Partners: Brittany, Will, and Anne Photos: Brittany The Trip Day 1 We drove to Clinton via Hope on Hwy 1 and then north through the Fraser Canyon. We passed by the town of Lytton which was […]
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: October 17, 2020 Location: Lower Mainland, BC Distance: 200.8 km, 880 m elevation Partner: Brittany The Trip One Saturday last October we left home around 10 a.m. to ride down to Point Roberts and make a small tour of that orphaned piece of Washington state. We added a little loop around Richmond […]
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 Dates: May 6 – 10, 2018 Location: Southeast Oregon Partner: Brittany Distance: ~400 km, ~2700 meters Time: Five days Photos: Brittany GPS Tracks: see bottom of post Resources: Bikepacking.com, USGS maps, Printed maps (below) The Trip We drove down to Frenchglen, OR from Vancouver over two days, doing about 8 hours on Saturday travelling through […]
The Vitals Dates: May 28 – June 2, 2017 Location: Whitehorse, YT > Skagway, AK > Haines, AK (ferry) > Haines Junction, YT > Whitehorse , YT Partners: Brittany Distance: 608 km (4562 m gained) by bike Time: 6 days Resources: This guy’s site, but it’s not very complicated Photos: Brittany The Trip The day before […]