2 weeks on Tour Divide 2013
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:29 pm
Any interest in a couple of weeks on the Tour Divide 2013? Fly to Calgary, bus to Banff and head South to Butte / Lima area and fly home.
Lot of logistics such as getting away from Butte /Lima area. My thoughts are:
* Plenty of time to get passes* organised and pennies saved,
* Peeps can probably get 2 weeks leave, another couple of days would be nice though,
* I paid ~£700 for a flight to Calgary and return from Seattle in 2011,
* Travel at holiday pace rather than TD race pace,
* Start later than TD to get better weather i.e. no snow, mebbe a July start,
* Camp as much as possible,
* Departing TD route is the biggest issue as Denver / SLC are quite a good distance - not sure how to sort this out but surely not impossible. From Butte can easily get to Boise or Billings airports but would like to get a bit further.
* Do not have to start from Banff could do say a Colorado section.
Last summer I missed a lot of the Northern section because of high snowfall last winter and partly fancy perhaps doing the section I missed. My big doubt is that there is also loads more I want to do over there, if I do this I miss out some riding in Idaho I fancy or New England or etc etc.
Have a look on the ACA site they have a few trips and I am thinking of roughly combining these two but heading further South:
http://adventurecycling.org/tours/tourd ... id=310&p=1
http://adventurecycling.org/tours/tourd ... id=291&p=1
Loads to do but seeing if there is any interest in this.
Me on youtube living the dream:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGECE5Vw ... uEP3UBBCsv
* I have not yet approached Herself about this so I have no permission yet...
Lot of logistics such as getting away from Butte /Lima area. My thoughts are:
* Plenty of time to get passes* organised and pennies saved,
* Peeps can probably get 2 weeks leave, another couple of days would be nice though,
* I paid ~£700 for a flight to Calgary and return from Seattle in 2011,
* Travel at holiday pace rather than TD race pace,
* Start later than TD to get better weather i.e. no snow, mebbe a July start,
* Camp as much as possible,
* Departing TD route is the biggest issue as Denver / SLC are quite a good distance - not sure how to sort this out but surely not impossible. From Butte can easily get to Boise or Billings airports but would like to get a bit further.
* Do not have to start from Banff could do say a Colorado section.
Last summer I missed a lot of the Northern section because of high snowfall last winter and partly fancy perhaps doing the section I missed. My big doubt is that there is also loads more I want to do over there, if I do this I miss out some riding in Idaho I fancy or New England or etc etc.
Have a look on the ACA site they have a few trips and I am thinking of roughly combining these two but heading further South:
http://adventurecycling.org/tours/tourd ... id=310&p=1
http://adventurecycling.org/tours/tourd ... id=291&p=1
Loads to do but seeing if there is any interest in this.
Me on youtube living the dream:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGECE5Vw ... uEP3UBBCsv
* I have not yet approached Herself about this so I have no permission yet...
