by nickpannaman | Jun 25, 2016 | blog, USA | Across North America
116 miles ridden – 5259 feet climbed. I was with the early starters today after pulling a muscle on yesterday’s climb so I was on the road just before 6am this morning. The weather held great promise – clear sky and around 13C even at that time...
by nickpannaman | Jun 23, 2016 | blog, USA | Across North America
60 miles ridden – 3248 feet climbed. Lovely weather today. Sunny, warm in the sunshine but not too hot overall. After a fabulous downhill into, and then this morning out of, Kah-nee-ta we had a decent 3 mile climb up onto high plains. The ‘A40’...
by nickpannaman | Jun 23, 2016 | blog, USA | Across North America
65 miles ridden – 4,892 feet climbed. We had a slightly earlier start today as over the first 12 miles we needed to climb to Government Camp in the foothills of Mount Hood at an elevation of 3995 feet. It wasn’t particularly steep – just long. As...
by nickpannaman | Jun 22, 2016 | blog, USA | Across North America
74 miles ridden – 2835 feet climbed. I’ll start with the highlight – the view of Mt. Hood: It was a really mixed day – the first 20 miles and last 20 miles were a bit like cycling down the A40 (UK readers) or Route 17 (US/NJ aware readers)....
by nickpannaman | Jun 21, 2016 | blog, USA | Across North America
69 miles – 2,917 feet climbed – 4000 calories to be replaced! So finally we got underway. Breakfast was at 6am this morning to allow us all to pack up our stuff and get the van loaded before a group photo. The route today was quite straight forward –...
