Shifting gears on the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route. - CycleBlaze

Shifting gears on the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route.

By Andrew Richard
4,484 km (2,785 miles) over 43 days between Aug. 19, 2024 and Sep. 30, 2024
Opening Prologue heart 14
Shakedown Trip #1 heart 7
Shakedown Trip #2 Pender Island heart 9
The Gear heart 7
Boxing the bike. heart 6
Banff to the US Border Map (Section 1: 326 kilometers). heart 4
Day 0 Vancouver to Banff heart 10
Day 1: Rocky Mountain High heart 31
Day 2 heart 8
Day 3: Two Canucks cross the border. heart 15
US Border to Helena, Montana Map (Section 2: 600 kilometers) heart 0
Day 4: Eureka, Montana to Wilderness. heart 11
Day 5: ‘Rest Day - Wilderness to Big Fork, Montana’ heart 7
Day 6: Big Day! heart 8
Day 7: Headed to Jail heart 20
Day 8: From hard time to a slice of heaven. heart 6
Day 9: A gruelling one! heart 11
Helena, Montana to Coulter Bay, Wyoming Map (Section 3: 730 kilometers) heart 0
Day 10: Forget Fall! How about winter? heart 20
Day 11 From Butte up and over Fleecer Ridge heart 23
Day 12: From the wilderness to wilderness. heart 15
Day 13: The Rocky Canyon & Lima. heart 19
Thank you Montana! Welcome to Idaho. heart 21
Coulter Bay, Wyoming to Rawlins, Wyoming Map (Section 4: 588 kilometers) heart 1
Day 15: Thank you Idaho! Welcome to Wyoming. heart 17
Day 16: Grand Teton Delivers! heart 32
From Wilderness, through Pinedale and into Boulder, Wyoming heart 7
Day 18: From Boulder, Wyoming to Atlantic City, Wyoming heart 16
Day 19: The start of the Great Basin. heart 24
Day 20: Leaving the Basin past Rawlins, Wyoming. heart 11
Rawlins, Wyoming to Salida, Colorado Map (Section 5: 608 kilometers) heart 0
Day 21: Rocky Mountain High Part 2 heart 28
Day 22: Brush Mountain Lodge to Stagecoach Reservoir heart 7
Day 23: To Kremmling, Colorado heart 24
Day 24: Kremmling to Frisco heart 31
Day 25: Frisco over Boreas Pass to Hartsel heart 26
Day 26: Hartsel to Salida and beyond! heart 20
Salida, Colorado to Grants, New Mexico Map (Section 6: 865 kilometers) heart 2
Gear Update. heart 14
Day 27 heart 23
Day 28: To Del Norte heart 19
Day 29: From Del Norte to Platoro over Indiana Pass (3640 m). heart 28
Day 30: The trail strikes back part two! heart 25
Day 31: From Chama to the wilderness. heart 12
Day 32: From wilderness through Albiquiu to wilderness. heart 43
Day 33: From wilderness through Cuba and back to wilderness. heart 34
Grants, New Mexico to the Mexican Border (Section 7: 635 kilometers) heart 0
Day 34: From the desert to Grants. heart 14
Zero Day: Grants, New Mexico. heart 16
Day 35: Grants to Pie Town. heart 28
Day 36: From the Toaster House to wilderness. heart 22
Day 37: Wilderness to wilderness. heart 14
Day 38: From wilderness through Silver City to RV Park. heart 17
Day 39: To Hachita heart 37
Day 40: Hachita to the finish! heart 45
By the numbers. heart 7