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I want to ride my bike from Anchorage Alaska to southern California. Am
looking for all the info I can get to make this trip. I want to take my black lab with me. We do not need to travel high mileage per day. |
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"Mike McConnaughey" wrote in message ... I want to ride my bike from Anchorage Alaska to southern California. Am looking for all the info I can get to make this trip. I want to take my black lab with me. We do not need to travel high mileage per day. I'm gonna say covered wagon, unless you want to go a little faster, then use stagecoach Come on. Be brave. |
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"marika" writes: "Mike McConnaughey" wrote in message ... I want to ride my bike from Anchorage Alaska to southern California. Am looking for all the info I can get to make this trip. I want to take my black lab with me. We do not need to travel high mileage per day. I'm gonna say covered wagon, unless you want to go a little faster, then use stagecoach Come on. Be brave. Conestogas never worked well in British Columbia. Stagecoaches did, but they needed the strength of extra long teams and a lot of changes to get them up our grades. Camels were tried during the Cariboo gold rush. The classic erstwhile traverse between Anchorage and Seattle was by paddlewheeled steamship, bypassing British Columbia completely, except perhaps through the disputed A:B Line. Nowadays one might be able to obtain passage by volunteering to cook & wash dishes on a sea-going tugboat. There /is/ that war-time make-work project: The Alaska Highway. Be prepared for voracious flying insects, bears, and skookum weather. cheers, Tom -- Nothing is safe from me. I'm really at: tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca |
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On Apr 26, 6:06 pm, (Mike McConnaughey) wrote:
I want to ride my bike from Anchorage Alaska to southern California. Am looking for all the info I can get to make this trip. I want to take my black lab with me. We do not need to travel high mileage per day. I suggest you browse around www.crazyguyonabike.com, where you'll find people who have done the Alaska/Pacific Highway ride, and also people who have done long rides with dogs (though I can't think of an intersecting set.) Good luck! |
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With a lab, food for two and camping gear, you're going to be hauling
more than eighty pounds with the the trailer too.. I'd consider going solar electric and praying for sun. This will get you to Seattle: http://broughton.ca/bcakfaq.html -- zk |
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On Apr 26, 4:06*pm, (Mike McConnaughey) wrote:
I want to ride my bike from Anchorage Alaska to southern California. Am looking for all the info I can get to make this trip. I want to take my black lab with me. We do not need to travel high mileage per day. Ever heard of Svein Tuft? "current Canadian time trial champion Svein Tuft is on his way to the world championships in Stuttgart, Germany with a three year contract with his Symmetrics team in hand". "I would ride up into central BC, the coastal range and base myself out of there in the back country where I ran into a lot of bad weather; rain or snow. But, I made my own trailer and I would load it up with my dog and do long trips out there". Here is a link to an article on CyclingNews.com, once you get there scroll down a ways for the article: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...ep07/sep24news See, Mike? You're not so crazy. I'm wishing you luck and a tailwind. ABS |
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Mike McConnaughey wrote:
I want to ride my bike from Anchorage Alaska to southern California. Am looking for all the info I can get to make this trip. I want to take my black lab with me. We do not need to travel high mileage per day. Check Adventure Cycling. They'll probably have some pretty good maps, complete with nearby campground, restaurant and even bike shop information. I read of a local who brought his dog with him on a long bike tour. He used a modified "kid trailer" for the dog and spent some time training the dog to trot along side the trailer when inclined to run, or jump into the trailer when worn out. The trailer was modified so that the dog couldn't get tangled up in wheels and injured. Also had a supply of water that the dog could "self serve" when thirsty. I guess the trip worked out quite well. Do make allowances for the dog. Not certain what low mileage for you means, but a lab probably isn't going to be able to do more than 10-15 miles/day over an extended period without some damage to the legs (my Irish Setter is probably good for 20 per day indefinitely but that's a breed related thing). I see quite a few people with dogs in trunk racks or handlebar baskets during my past rides in Iowa. I don't think a Lab would fit those locations very well though! SMH |
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"Zoot Katz" wrote in message ... With a lab, food for two and camping gear, you're going to be hauling more than eighty pounds with the the trailer too.. I'd consider going solar electric and praying for sun. what a stroke of genius you had.... I just realized You opened a HUGE world of possibilities! perhaps wind sails! This will get you to Seattle: http://broughton.ca/bcakfaq.html -- PS I finally broke down and got NFL network yesterday. I'm paying 25 dollars per year for 5 million hours of repeated news shows, documentaries, and game replays, and the only thing I really wanted from the whole thing-- the 11/29 game Packers vs Cowboys. That game alone was worth 25 bucks. GO PACKERS!!!! The football experts STILL refuse to admit that the Packers were good . 10-1, and they still say it's a fluke. They're tied with dallas, yet somehow Dallas was "elite" but the Packres were a "fluke". YOU SHOWED 'EM BRETT!!!! He was on Letterman one day last week. Good interview mk5000 Watchoo talkin' 'bout, Willis |
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"Zoot Katz" wrote in message ... With a lab, food for two and camping gear, you're going to be hauling more than eighty pounds with the the trailer too.. I'd consider going solar electric and praying for sun. what a stroke of genius you had.... I just realized You opened a HUGE world of possibilities! perhaps wind sails! Sails have been done: http://www.ransbikes.com/early%20years.htm. PS I finally broke down and got NFL network yesterday. I'm paying 25 dollars per year for 5 million hours of repeated news shows, documentaries, and game replays, and the only thing I really wanted from the whole thing-- the 11/29 game Packers vs Cowboys. That game alone was worth 25 bucks.[...] Around here that game was on local broadcast television. -- Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia The weather is here, wish you were beautiful |
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