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Cycle Tour 2017 - Canada & Alaska
Due to the length of the tour, the trip report is split into the following pages:
- Some statistics of the Tour
- Number of Punctures: 7
- Steepest Measured Road Grade in Canada: 8% (a lot less than you're made to believe, but doesn't include the Top of the World Hwy!)
- Total kilometres cycled: 8,300 km, made up as follows:
- Total kilometres cycled in Ontario: 2,511 km
- Total kilometres cycled in Manitoba: 631 km
- Total kilometres cycled in Saskatchewan: 812 km
- Total kilometres cycled in Alberta: 1,346 km
- Total kilometres cycled in British Columbia: 1,033 km
- Total kilometres cycled in Yukon: 1,161 km
- Total kilometres cycled in Alaska: 806 km
- Campgrounds with services: 58
- Campgrounds with limited services (no showers, but with pit toilets): 14
- Bush Camps: 27
- Hotels: 9
- Interesting Fauna Sightings
- Muskrat
- Beaver
- Fox
- Deer
- Black Bear and cub
- Moose and calf
- Grizzly Bear
- Stone sheep
- Lynx
- Bison
- Mountain Goat
- Porcupine
- Turtle
- Bald Eagle
- Chinook Salmon
- Carabou
- Arctic Ground Squirrel
- Canadian Province Vehicle Rego Plate Slogans
- Ontario: Yours to Discover
- Manitoba: Friendly Manitoba
- Saskatchewan: Land of the Living Skies
- Alberta: Wild Rose Country
- British Columbia: Beautiful British Columbia
- Yukon: The Klondike
- "Be a Hero with your campfire: Soak, Stir, Repeat - Until cold to touch" - Yukon Wildfire Management
- Judith's Ode to Canada (Sung to the tune of a random tweety bird heard along the way)
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There's a... moose in your kaboose
And a bear in my underwear
A million black flies lie dead in the tent
But we're too brave for a cabin to rent!
Chorus:
Oh! Canada! Oh Canada!
We're pedalling across you now!
Oh! Canada! Oh Canada!
Home of the big PowWow!
We cycled through Wawa
Home of the Wawa Goose
If we'd seen a moose for every goose
We'd be so happy make no excuse!
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We cycled through White River
Where Winnie-the-Pooh began
I don't know why bears like honey
I guess maple syrup costs too much money!
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We cycled in a cloud of bugs
They didn't help us progress
Slowly up the hills they're biting in the armpits
Causing a lot of stress!
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We cycled across the prairies
They told us we'd be bored to tears
But we found the scenery varied
And the headwinds were all that we'd feared!
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We cycled through a smoky haze
Couldn't see Banff for miles
Then the sky cleared and the mountains appeared
And we were full of smiles!
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We cycled the Alaska Highway
From Dawson Creek to Whitehorse
Starting at Mile Zero don't be a hero
We'll get there in the end of course!
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We cycled the Klondike Highway
From Whitehorse to Dawson City
Top of the World, Alaska bound
So that's the end of my ditty!