Day 45: The Canadian Rainforest Near the small town of McBride, British Columbia lies an ancient inland rainforest. The one-of-a-kind forest has some cedars over 1,000 years old and greater than 10 feet in girth. On our 62-mile ride from McBride to Purden Lake, British Columbia, we passed through these ancient trees. As expected, we […]
Day 44: The Mountains Were Calling Before the summer, the Rockies team compiled a list great songs and titled the playlist “The Mountains Are Calling.” We put in it songs we felt evoked a sense of majesty and inspiration. As Rockies, our route draws strength from the same mountains we climb through. Today, we left […]
Day 43: Fields of Ice Neither words not pictures can adequately describe the beauty of today’s 80-mile ride into the mountains, from Lake Louise to Columbia Icefields. Massive ice sheets and glaciers loomed overhead as we rode by turquoise-blue streams and green-brown boreal forest. The unmeasurable immensity of the ice and the majestic rock faces […]
Day 42: Can You Feel The Love Tonight Nestled in the heart of the Canadian Rockies, Lake Louise displays royal beauty. Named after a 19th century British princess, the lovely blue water attracts visitors every year. Our team rode 45 miles from Banff to the Lake along the Trans-Canada highway. On what people regard as […]
Day 41: Remember to Breathe As we left the Jewish temple where we stayed overnight in Calgary, our host came out and gave us an inspirational speech. He warned us to be safe, to never forget why we are riding to Alaska, and most memorably, to remember to breathe. “Look up, ” he told us, […]
Day 40: An Act of Starbucks Occasionally we all have an experience that we know instantly we will never forget. The event might be absurdly dramatic or spur some intense emotion. On our 70-mile ride in to Calgary, Alberta, my three-person ride group and I had one of those unforgettable encounters. As we pushed through […]
Day 39: Canada Our summer ride features both planned and unplanned stops. In many places we have hosts at night; in a few, we even have hosts at rest stops. In more beautiful places we often detour in search of a landmark or gorgeous landscape. As memorable as some of these stops are, they often […]
Day 38: Going to the Sun Road What else would we do on our “rest day” at Glacier National Park, but wake up at 5 AM and bike up a 18-mile hill? Several of us put on our warm-weather gear – it was below freezing at sunrise – and rode up the most beautiful road […]
Day 37: I Might Get Lost in Glacier National Park As a child, I wanted nothing more than a treehouse. I would have loved nothing more than a wooded backyard. I wanted to explore, discover, and maybe play with some bugs under a microscope I would store in the treehouse. This was what I had […]
It turns out riding a bike across the continent, trying to find a career and keeping up with a regular blog is a little more challenging than I imagined, so I apologize for the brutal delay here. We’ve been in and out of civilization and without service much of the past couple weeks but, if […]
