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Connecting ACA Routes / Re: Great Divide MTB alternate Eureka MT into Glacier NP

« on: August 07, 2015, 11:10:35 pm »

I came through on the Inside Road recently - Naturally, you'll have to check current conditions but here's how it was.

There's a major washout, so it's closed to cars, only open to bikes.
It was VERY remote! And bear scat all over the place.  Had the bear spray on quick-draw!  There were not even airplanes.  No rangers.
We got a backcountry permit and camped at Avalanche Creek, mostly because there's a big nasty hill just after that.  But it's all rideable., maybe a little more rubble than you're used to but no problem

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Routes / Re: Great Divide MTB Route options?

« on: April 03, 2015, 08:09:50 pm »

Everyone is insanely slow on the climbs and everyone had best plan provisions.  As long as you're ready to HAB you will be OK - can't get much worse than that.

I would warn you about New Mexico.  The Gilas were the roughest toughest place I'd ever been.  But then I got to Polvadera Mesa and it became the roughest toughest place I'd ever been with wheel-sucking mud.  Burned Mountain was bad and Brazos Ridge was worse, I pretty much slid down the rocky gravelly washed-out mountain but soon it turned into sandstone slabs and the six-inch drops gave me traction.  So that was better.  The next miles of one-track (you could call it washed-out-two-track but... no, it was one-track) seemed easy.  But I didn't have a bent trike or a dog.

You're going to have some long hike-a-bike days, but don't let that stop you!  How do we train to push a bike up a talus slope at 10000 feet?

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Connecting ACA Routes / west Glacier - hwy 2 stinks?

« on: April 25, 2008, 12:45:39 pm »

I've heard that Highway 2 coming out of West Glacier National Park is an RV-infested, narrow, horrible road.

I've heard there's an alternate route.  What is it?  I'm trying to get back to the GDMBR, probably in Whitefish MT.

Thanks!

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General Discussion / White gas on the GDMBR?

« on: April 16, 2008, 10:45:49 pm »

Coleman fuel is another name for white gas, oh enlightened one

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General Discussion / White gas on the GDMBR?

« on: April 16, 2008, 08:54:12 pm »

I've just committed to the GDMBR this summer!  Kind of exciting, it's my first time out there. Maps are ordered, bike's getting prepped and now it's time to figure out the rest of the gear.

I've heard there are shops that will sell you a pint, or a quart of white gas for stoves, so you don't need to buy a gallon and don't need to muck up your stove with unleaded fuel.

But where are these shops?  Has Adventure Cycling got any tracks on this detail?

Thanks in advance

This message was edited by SandLizrd on 4-16-08 @ 5:17 PM