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Colorado bike trip
Sept. 9-23, 2006
Lynne & Rick
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If you go ...
- We based our route on the San
Juans Alpiner tour offered by Timberline
Adventures. We booked our own lodging and
carried all our gear in panniers on our bikes, so we
spent much less money than the amount charged for a
commercial tour. We did not camp. A rider named Ted
Campbell who went on the Timberline tour in June 2004
posted this photo
journal.
- Some cyclists do the loop in the opposite direction.
Some even do it in one day! (They call it the Death
Ride -- 230 miles, with 24,180 feet of climbing.)
- We live near sea level, and we spent several days
hiking elsewhere in Colorado's Rocky Mountains before
the bike trip, getting acclimated to high altitude.
- The books "Cycling
Colorado's Mountain Passes" by Kurt Magsamen and
"Road
Biking Colorado" by Michael Seeberg contain road
maps, elevation profiles and other useful information.
- New Mexico Touring Society has a web page with
elevation profiles and other info on cycling
in the San Juan Mountains.
- Almost any road map will do, as the highways are
numbered and there aren't many paved side roads.
- We shipped our bikes via UPS to our motel in
Durango.
- Adventure
Cycling Association is a great resource for
bicycle travel of all kinds. The organization's online
Cyclists'
Yellow Pages has these listings
for Colorado.
Other bike adventures:
Questions? Comments? Contact Lynne.
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