bicycle travel Archives Canadian outdoors and adventure travel writer and photographer Matt Gibson Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:52:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 T-1000 KM to Cranbrook https://xpatmatt.com/t-1000-km-to-cranbrook/ https://xpatmatt.com/t-1000-km-to-cranbrook/#comments Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:34:24 +0000 http://www.matt-gibson.org/?p=3684 Today I start my first long-distance bicycle trip: 1000 km from Vancouver BC to Cranbrook BC. This is how it begins.

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]]> Over the past year I’ve though more and more about human-powered travel. I have decided that it is something I’d like to do full-time. It’s green, it solves the problem of finding ways to exercise while traveling, and it enables slow, ground level travel, which I like very much.

Today I begin my first bike trip: 1000 kilometers from Vancouver B.C. to my hometown of Cranbrook B.C., during which I will cross three mountain passes. I hope to average about 100 km per day and, after a couple of days off, finish in about two weeks.

Everything that I will take with me in the picture above. I have one bicycle that I bought for $100 here in Vancouver because my last one was stolen, one trailer that I bought fror $150, a hammock tent and sleeping bag, clothes, my camera, and my computer. That’s it.

Below is a picture of the route that I will follow today (courtesy of Google Maps). I will take the West Coast Express leaving downtown Vancouver at 3:50 pm and arriving at Mission at 5:05 pm. It costs $11.25 plus $1 for my bicycle. It will knock about 50 km off the trip. After I arrive I plan to ride the remaining 80 km to Hope where I will camp for the night.

Tomorrow I hope to bike the 120 km from Hope to Merrit. I’ll let you know how that turns out when I arrive.

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