Only 75km, so a relatively short ride but the first 50 we’re uphill! Not steep but long It was a great ride up with little or no traffic so we could enjoy the scenery and concentrate on our efforts After a much steeper descent WS had a short climb to Mitchell and our bike hostel…
Our hosts are up in Quebec making their Maple Syrup but let us stay anyway! We were offered the sauna out back in their garden. As the weather forecast was for-4C we lit the fire in the sauna before going out to dinner to be sure the stones kept us warm during the night Supper…
We had a super WS host again tonight (Jim and Jill). Home cooking, home made cookies, home made yoghurt, home brewed beer. Quite an inspirational couple with a beautiful house looking out over the 3 Sisters. We had a tailwind which helped us and, at last, dry and sunny weather 😉 Because we had a…
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After meeting up with Rich who was also being hosted on WS by Jim and Jill it was obvious that we were not going to be able to ride the pass so we needed a ride. The forecast was for at least 2 more days snow and we don’t have 3 days to waste waiting…
We have stopped at the general store to take a weather check and it is not good. Only 1 lane in each direction and no hard shoulder so definitely not a risk worth taking We are at 400m here and it looks like the snow line is at 500. The pass is 1450m We are…
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Today was relatively easy. We had uphill all the way but a gentle tail wind pretty much negated the gentle ascent. It’s the 4 day of almost continuous rain so we are ready for some better weather After 22km I got our first puncture. Luckily the rain eased up for me to fix it. Funnily…
A flat ride up the valley we thought, no need to set off early we thought, it will be a doddle / an easy day we thought WRONG We had gale force headwinds for 103 km! Luckily we had a WarmShowers host waiting for us in Eugene. We were royally treated by Jens and Shelly…