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Page 9 Third bit of my Great Divide Trail experience from Yellowstone to Colorado. The Great Basin, getting high, tired and flippin’ cold America’s famous Yellowstone National Park is a small detour off the official Divide Trail but it’s somewhere I’ve wanted to visit for a while so for me it had to be done, […]

Page 8. A new plan, big mountain climbs, ranch lands and that beautiful American hospitality. Touring the Great Divide Route is a biggun so I’ll share bits of it over three pages. Leaving Eureka on the quiet rolling back roads with a nice sunny afternoon was a treat. Although I now only had 29 full […]

Page 6. Into the Rockies, riding the Icefields Parkway, luxury camping, good friends, big mountains and beautiful lakes. After leaving Prince George in northern British Columbia I was only three days riding away from Jasper, Alberta. From there I would be on the Icefields Parkway a 300km road down to another mountain town called Banff. […]

Page 5. Into Northern British Columbia, Canada and riding south down the glorious Stewart Cassiar Highway. My original plans did not include this road. However, as I was getting closer to British Columbia and got chatting to different folk, it was clear this route was the preferred way. An 800km tourist road mostly, used a […]

Page 4. My Yukon experience, 1000km from Dawson City to Watson Lake. Lots more trees, brutal headwinds and flow state moments. Road navigation isn’t hard in the Yukon. After leaving Dawson city south, the next turn was 5 days away! I was on the Klondike Highway and finally heading proper south for the first time […]

Page 3. Chicken or bust, mad storms, bike friends, border crossings and feeling the strain. The typical road route out of Alaska is the Alaska highway through the Alcan Border into Yukon, Canada. However, I had spotted a road on google maps called “Top of the World Highway”. It’s a proper border road that crosses […]

Page 2. Heading into the wild, being a blood donor, no wildlife sightings and mind-blowing backdrops. Alaska is ‘da shit Like most places, the roads are all numbered in Alaska but they’re aren’t many so no one refers to the number, they all have names. Highway 8 is called The Denali Highway and it’s a […]

First entry! A few words and pictures about the start of my North America Tour. Nervous excitement, Easy flying and ambitious plans. From July 2022 I had a year off work in the bag I was keen to put it use, I booked flights to Alaska a few days before my sabbatical leave was due […]

Page 7. Enter the gravel, grizzly encounters, group rides, bike struggles and border problems. If you’ve read much on this site you may have noticed I’ve mentioned several times that starting this route from Banff was a big deal for me. Initially inspired in 2016 when reading about the Tour Divide race. I remember looking […]