I am meeting the ride at the Roosville border crossing
tomorrow. Roosville is close to 700 kms
from my home in Kelowna so it was going to take me 8 hours to drive from my house
to the meeting place. In order to
accomplish this I had to leave a day early and then camp at a crossroads called
Elko. It is 37 kms from the border. So in the morning I will get on my bike and
ride down to the border.
I should explain a couple of things. This ride is being put on by Bike Dreams and
runs from Banff Alberta to Apache Wells New Mexico. They needed a couple of Canadians to work on
the Canadian side as they did not have work permits. So I am going to help out for a week. It should be lots of fun seeing a ride from
the other side. I will be working until
Aug 26. Then I will camp that night and
drive home in the morning.
I am not sure how long this is going to take as this is a
borrowed mountain bike and it does not have a speedometer. I have never ridden
it so it could be fun. On the up side I
did install my road bike saddle and a pair of road bike clips. At least the SPD’s will keep me connected to
the bike.
The 700 kms drive
started out looking like under 7 hours but then after I got about 10 kms out of town there was a sign
saying highway 33 was closed due to the forest fire down at Rock Creek. So I had to turn around and go the long way
through Golden. It is now 750 kms and
there is construction and slow moving motorhomes everywhere. However I made it and got checked into the
camp ground.
Terry
1 comment:
Wow, you are a professional bike porter and domestic. It should be fun with a bunch of young fat tire guys. They can surely give you some pointers like rock hopping and catching some air. I trust you will have a beer or two with them at the end of the day. Stay safe.
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