WILD SALMON CYCLE

Cycling Out of Inuvik, NWT With Only 10,000 Kilometres To Go

Stage 1 of The Wild Salmon Cycle

Starting into the Richardson Mountains, Northwest Territories — fully loaded for an 80 km steady climb

By the time I landed in the Arctic, to start riding my bicycle south — I was only about 2 months into first hatching the idea.

I decided to do this bike trip only about two and a half months previous in May. Initially, I had pondered walking, however, after looking at distances and calculating walking pace, I decided that several years on the road was neither the approach nor the time I wanted to take.

Yet, I have also never ridden a bike more than one hundred kilometres in one day, let alone over multiple days. I have never really ridden with more than a water bottle and a quarter in my pocket for emergency phone calls if anything happened while out riding.

Note: I did this bicycle trip starting in 2001. Cellular phones were in their very early days.

If you are just coming to this story — the first story in the series is here 👇