Category: Bike Tour

Yesterday we set a record for the fastest average speed of our nomadacy. Today, we would set another record, for the longest distance. And it wouldn’t be a cheap record either. We’d finish nearly 1000 feet higher than our start, and there were no giant tailwinds in the forecast, so we’d be earning all those…

Rested and relaxed after five nights of city living, it’s time to start another chunk of bike riding. We were lucky to even be able to dawdle to our preferred checkout-time (11am) departure, something we haven’t been able to achieve too often this summer. But the weather had conveniently cooled off just in time, so…

It had been a bit difficult designing the last couple days of this five-day push from Glacier into Helena. There just wasn’t a great stopping point for that fourth night on the direct route, so instead of just not stopping (making a massive 4th day be the final day), I decided to take a slightly…

On Bears Two summers ago, Leah Lokan was riding her bike through Montana, and stopped in Ovando where she was welcomed to camp here just as we have been welcomed twice now. The old jail that we slept in last night must have been occupied on her night, so she pitched her tent in the…

Two long rides in a row meant that today would be a short day. We were still up at 5:30am though, because we would finally be completing our slow counterclockwise loop around (and under, through, and over) Glacier National Park, and returning to Ovando, where we camped 32 nights ago. We were shut out of…