Two Mates, Two Bikes, & 2800 Miles to Mexico : Day 45

Trip Overview

This blog will follow two totally inexperienced bikepackers, Geoff and Cam, and their journey from Banff to Mexico via the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route. The route follows the Continental Divide, exposing riders to high altitude, diverse wildlife, and solitude. To learn more about the route, check this out. Randy will be the official bookie so get in touch with him if you'd like to place a wager on how far we will actually make it.

In the mean time, you can track our progress here thanks to our SPOT device.

This will be a site where we will try our best to post some pictures and stories along the way. Happy reading!

Sunday 17 August 2014

Day 45 - Pie Town to Magdelina

We awoke this morning and spent the AM hanging out with Mike. This guy was awesome. This was his third and final leg at the Divide (we met a lot of people who break the trip up into a 3 or 4 year adventure). Mike looked like he could do the entire route in a day, though. The man looked like a marine.

The pie place opened at 10am so the three of us went to see what it's all about. We split a pie three ways and the chatter stopped until every last blueberry was gone. Worth every penny.

The town and the Toaster House was just too cool to leave early, so the two of us said bye to Mike and ended up hanging out there until 4pm or so. We only had a 50 mile day or so until Magdelina. We did this as an afternoon/evening ride. We rode through this giant 25 mile wide basin that was home to two national observatories. One of which was a giant telescope, the other being an array of 50 or so X-Ray imaging things.

sunrise on the balcony

The Toaster House!!! A true oasis

Savant Geoff posing under a string of shoes hikers have left behind.

the penthouse penthouse

PIE TIME

Blueberry n Peach

Bumper stickers the pie crew gave us. Bikes don't have bumpers and poor kids don't have cars - watch out mom n dad.

Only found this in the morning! Stocked fridge that all hikers and bikers are welcome to.

Mikey

This is Nita, the lady behind all the magic.

Ride into Magdelina

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Geoff Gerhardt

Growing up in New Brunswick, Geoff’s passion for adventure and the outdoors was firmly planted in the forests and bays of the Saint John River Vally. Over his life Geoff continued to seek adventure, sometimes close to home and sometimes farther afield. From the waves and beaches of the Outerbanks in North Carolina to the mountains of Honduras, he has continued to seek adventure, through life guarding, paddling, hiking and riding. Although biking has always been a passion from the road to the trail, this will be Geoff’s first multi-day trip.
Apart from sports and the outdoors, Geoff enjoys countless hours of Coen brother’s films and the odd Tarantino flick. Craft beers and greasy diner breakfasts are other driving forces in Geoff’s life.

Cameron Wade

Cam just finished studying Physics and playing sports at Acadia and was most recently a professional prison door installer with his friend, Scott. He likes to spend his spare time at pubs, playing QWOP, or watching countless hours of riveting TV with his sister, Grace.

After the trip, Cam will be heading off to Europe to begin his master's in Mathematics. He figures now is a great time to take off an adventure to finally eat authentic tacos and learn a thing or two about himself.

Cam also finds it difficult to write in third person and will miss his nannies.