Mountainbiking and bikepacking in Sussex and further afield
Tour Divide Diary Day 9 03/07/16 Swan Lake back to Bigfork 20.2 miles 597 feet of climbing Cumulative 380 miles 17164 feet of climbing Day nine dawned and we couldn’t decide what to do initially. My stomach still felt rubbish and to cap it off my back, right hip and leg were also feeling pretty…
Tour Divide Diary Day 8 02/07/16 Bigfork to Swan Lake 28.1 miles 2244 feet of climbing Cumulative 360 miles 16567 feet of climbing When we got up two of the guys had already packed up and left and Glen was sorting his stuff out too, so we whipped up some porridge, packed up the kit…
Tour Divide Diary Day 7 01/07/16 Whitefish to Bigfork 50.5 miles 1620 feet of climbing Cumulative 332 miles 14323 feet of climbing Today we actually managed to get up and cook breakfast, it was pretty windy, but we had porridge down by the lake before packing up to go. We went into Whitefish to top…
Tour Divide Diary Day 6 30/06/16 Rest day in Whitefish 0 miles 0 feet of climbing Cumulative 281 miles 12702 feet of climbing Dodging cooking yet again we headed into Whitefish and found Amazing Crepes (http://www.amazingcrepes.com/) where we had a slap up feed. I opted for a ham and cheese crepe, Tom opted for strawberry…
Tour Divide Diary Day 5 29/06/16 Eureka to Whitefish 55.3 miles 2063 feet of climbing Cumulative 281 miles 12702 feet of climbing When we got up the other group who were doing the road tour were already up and packing their kit away, we had a quick chat with them and then got on with…
Tour Divide Diary Day 4 28/06/16 Fernie to Eureka 69.3 miles 2109 feet of climbing Cumulative 226 miles 10639 feet of climbing Today we actually set an alarm so we could get up and out earlier, we’d decided to buy breakfast rather than cook it and riding past Starbucks we saw a couple of construction…
Tour Divide Diary Day 3 27/06/16 Elkford to Fernie 48.1 miles 1709.3 feet of climbing Cumulative 157 miles 8530 feet of climbing Starting off from the campsite in Elkford, it was a great spot, so nice to have a shower and soothe the aching muscles. The road out of Elkford, Fording River Road, it was…
Tour Divide Diary Day 2 26/06/16 Boulton Creek to Elkford 50.1 miles 2618.1 feet of climbing Cumulative 108 miles 6820 feet of climbing We stayed at the campsite near the lake, when we got up we went back up to the Boulton Creek Trading Post and bought ourselves water and supplies for the day. We…
Tour Divide Diary Day 1 25/06/16 Banff to Boulton Creek 58.8 miles 4202.8 feet of climbing We ended up getting into the motel in Calgary pretty late after picking up the hire car. It was cold, chucking it down with rain and we eventually got the bike boxes through the airport to the car hire…
Here is the playlist of the videos we filmed on our Tour Divide trip in the Summer of 2016. Please share and comment if you like them.
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