Category: Tour Divide
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TD 2022 – Day 5 – June 15th, 2022 – Butte, MT to a cave outside Lima
Note that the “cave” was really just a deep recession in a cliff, but it was enough to get me out of the steady wind that made the 30 degF temps feel that much colder. Also, note that I fell asleep in less than a minute after getting settled and even with a down blanket…
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TD 2022 – Day 4 – June 14th, 2022 – Lincoln, MT to Butte, MT via the most of everything (except peanut butter mud)
This day had it all – the most climbing per mile of the entire race with three passes and four big climbs, the most technical single-track, the most traffic of the entire race, the strongest winds of the entire race (knocking me off my bike once) and knocking over trees uncomfortably close to me, finishing…
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TD 2022 – Day 3 – June 13th, 2022 – Flathead National Forest, MT to Lincoln, MT via an epic store stop in Seeley Lake, MT
Don’t fall. The collage pic at the top of the post is a side-by-side comparison from June 13th when I crossed, from June 15th when David Landis crossed a couple days behind me immediately after the winter storm, and from June 11th 2021 one year ago when my friend Michael Rasch crossed the same stretch…
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TD 2022 – Day 2 – June 12th, 2022 – Eureka, Montana to a Montana Hilton in the Flathead National Forest via miles of beautiful winter scenes in SUMMER
Yes, I know that summer technically doesn’t start until June 20th. Sure, sure, but our summer starts by the beginning of May way down in Alabama. So for me, June 12th feels like the middle of summer. If you go far enough north and high enough into the mountains, though, you start to appreciate that…
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TD 2022 – Day 1 – Fernie, British Columbia, Canada to Eureka, Montana, USA
“Hi Brian, all I need is to see your passport,” said the US border patrol agent as I rolled up ahead of Theo. I dug in my backpack not registering that he already knew my name until I showed it to him and he wished me “good luck”. As I pulled away, I realized he…
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TD2022 – Day 0 – Banff, Alberta, Canada to Fernie, British Columbia, Canada
I will come back to this video later, but this is about 40 miles into the race, and it really captures the jaw dropping nature of the scenery. Really, the first 300 miles of the race had scenery similar to this … or we were climbing up and over the snow on one of the…
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Tour Divide 2022 plus home via Uvalde and Santa Fe
Let’s start out with a quick TLDR – my adventure totaled 4,077 miles with 2,715 miles of that being my 11th place finish (see pic above) in the 2022 Tour Divide southbound grand depart taking 18 days and 11 hours to complete over 16 rides. The remaining 1,362 miles included a 1,044 mile crossing of…
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Three Rivers Way, the tree-fall edition
Here is the link if you want to zoom in on the map above. It’s 7500px image (width) so it may take a while to download and open: https://toonecycling.files.wordpress.com/2022/05/annotated-heatmap.jpg Summary The Three Rivers Way (Vista 300) race was awesome again this year. I’ve called it the “tree-fall” edition because there was a noticeable increase in…
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Skyway Epic 2022 – 10 years of Skyway
Always hard, always epic. This year’s skyway was no exception. Most people try to get better over the years. I’m OK with continuing to see my results decline because that means more and more strong, competitive people are finding this amazing race created and brought into being by Brent Marshall and continuing to grow under…
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“Plan B Windy” – COLD Mid-Alabama High Point Ride
It has been a very busy start to the semester, so I haven’t been able to ride much. This Saturday afforded the opportunity to go for a long ride, but the weather was not looking great – cold with temps dropping down into the teens and then staying near freezing all day … and very…