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Melville – Russell

To day: 103.6 km To date: 2,224.6 km To go: 5,575.4 km After yesterdays painful climb with a belly-full of bakery goodies, you might think I would have learnt something – but no, another bakery...

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Richer – Falcon Lake

Today: 91 km To date: 2,944 km To go: 4,856 km Last night was far too dark to realize we were actually staying in a pretty cool camground.  For example, lying in the tent waking up, I kept hearing this...

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Dryden – Ignace

To day: 107 km To date: 3,256 km To go: 4,544 km It was a fast ride today – the wind was behind us and we were flying.  It was rather upsetting though to see our beautiful shoulders disappear and...

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Ignace – Upsala

Today: 105.5 km To date: 3,361 km To go: 4,439 km Another delicious breakfast in a random roadside diner – the home-made bread really makes it – note to anyone who plans on running a random road-side...

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Nipigon – Schreiber

Today: 95.5 km To date: 3,761 km To go: 4, 039 km We finally entered the hills we had been hearing about since Manitoba.  This area has been claimed to be worse than BC because of the steep grades –...

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Schreiber – Marathon

Today: 100 km To date: 3,861 km To go: 3,939 km “World-class athletic training” is how Alex described today….. I have come up with a new strategy for dealing with hills – and that’s just imagine the...

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Niagara Falls – Niagara-on-the-Lake

Today: 37 km To date: 5,143 km To go: 2,657 km First order of business – breakfast.  We went to downtown Niagara Falls -away from the actual Falls – hoping to find something reasonably priced.  The...

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Oakville – Scarborough

Today: 72 km To date: 5,311 km To go: 2,489 km This morning was perhaps one of my favourite moments of this whole trip.  Sleeping under the stars with nothing but a sleeping bag separating me from the...

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Truro – Halifax

Date Ridden: September 17th, 2013 Today: 100km To date: 8,257km Now first I want to apologize for not including my normal elevation details with the map – for some reason the website I use...

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Revised Cross Canada Packing List

So I ended up sending probably 20lbs of gear home – and picking up other things along the way… lets have a look at what got sent home and what stayed: things in red could have been left at home,...

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