From traffic to weather to city centers — everything you need to consider when planning your bicycle touring route.
Planning Your Bicycle Touring Route: Traffic, Weather and Other Factors To Consider
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The Roots Run Deep at Roche Harbor’s Afterglow Vista
Robber barons, immigrant communities and native burial practices — it's all here.
Photos of the Day: A Slice of Life in the Cascade Mountains
A slice of life in the Washington Cascades: mountains, elk, heaven-sent convenience stores and "worship centres" masquerading as churches. After a long climb into the mountains from the east, I spent a day and two nights loitering around Randle and sleeping behind the local Methodist church, recharging for the ride to Mount St. Helens.
Planning Your Bicycle Touring Route: The Different Types Of Tours
Everything you need to know about planning your route for your first big bicycle tour.
Photo of the Day: Back to the Cascades
After a week or two following rivers in central Washington, Baxter and I headed back to the Cascades.
Photo of the Day: The First 1,000 Kilometres
1,000 kilometres deserves a beer with my handlebar bag companions, Piglet and Dougal the Cancer Council bear.
10 Reasons To Do Your Next Trip By Bicycle
Before we launch into the details, from route planning to gear to hiker-biker camp culture, I thought it’d be fun to assemble ten reasons why you (yes, you!) should get your wheels on the road for the first time. Personally, I could go on forever about why cycle touring is the greatest thing since sliced bread and how you should start planning your trip right now, so it took considerable effort to trim this list back to just ten.
Photos of the Day: Sublime And The Seedy On The Columbia River
The seedy and the sublime on the banks of the Columbia River, in Washington state. Central Washington is a dry and dusty plain, but these rivers are like living tunnels hidden below the horizon.
The Best Book Excerpt Ever: Brian Doyle Writes A River
An excerpt from Mink River, in which the great Brian Doyle writes a passage from the perspective of a river — and pulls it off.
Photos of the Day: Cycle Touring in Rural British Columbia
In southern B.C. I was so busy worrying about bears and cougars that I was caught totally off guard by the little guy pictured below, who (I think) is harmless. I found him near a campsite down by the Similkameen River (pictured above), and after we scared the living daylights out of one another I groaned with dismay as I watched him slither into the bush where I’d left my bike.
