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Great Divide Mountain Bike Route Day 5 & 6
Wednesday July 29th, 50.7 miles and 4780 accumulated vertical feet up. As planned Celina’s dad met me at the hotel’s restaurant at 7:00am, they didn’t open until 8, we checked the Coal Miner’s Cafe, not open until 8. Paul suggested we go up to his summer house. It was a rustic homey bungalow with a…
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Great Divide Mountain Bike Route Day 3 & 4
Monday July 27th, 63 miles and 3900 accumulated vertical feet up. Woke this morning to very light rain but the skies looked as though it was going to be genuinely raining today. I packed up in a hurry, nobody else in the campground was up yet, got down to the GDMBR early. The route carried…
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Great Divide Mountain Bike Route Day 1 & 2
First a few comments about the train ride. I met a man. His name was Kirk P. (The Tin Man). He is from Ottawa. Very very nice man. He made this train ride more enjoyable than could possibly be imagined. Thanks, Kirk While in the dinning car at breakfast this morning there was a considerable…
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Grand Forks ND to Winnipeg Part 2
Wednesday July 22nd The agrarian scenery gradually changed today as we progressed northward, wheat and rapeseed have been replaced with mixed grass hay, lush green single variety tall grass hay, and small cattle operations. As in 2023 our border crossing into Canada proceeded without a hitch. No searching, only wanted our Passports and needed to…
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Grand Forks North Dakota to Winnipeg
Our first day (Monday 7/20/2026) out on the bikes required a short 25 mile ride to Oslo Minnesota. The ride was going to be flat and on VERY rural gravel roads. That’s the good news! In reality the roads were dirt, closed, and the gravel was thick and loose and we had sustained headwinds or…
