Cycling the Pacific Coast

Author: Bill Thorness
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 1594859876
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 341

Book Description
• Covers the entire 2,000-mile route from Canada to Mexico, including alternate and side-route options • Information on lodging, camping, loading the bike, safe cycling, road conditions, weather, and more The Pacific Coast route is the most popular bike touring route in the U.S., according to Mountaineers Books’ non-profit partner, the Adventure Cycling Association. And for 33 years, our very own Bicycling the Pacific Coast was the most popular guidebook to this venerable route—until now! Cycling the Pacific Coast continues the trusted legacy with an all-new, completely re-ridden, and fully comprehensive guidebook from Bill Thorness, featuring the most current, up-to-date beta on this amazing route. Cycling the Pacific Coast is organized in five sections—Washington, Oregon, Northern California, Central California, and Southern California—and is useful to riders who plan to do the trip as one epic ride, or break it up to peddle sections at a time. Features include: • Suggested itineraries for the entire ride, or for one- and two-week trips • Logistics for getting to/from ride sections • Airport and train-station connections in all major cities (Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego) • Alternate routes to take on Vancouver Island (Canada), Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, and Northern California’s “Lost Coast” • Interesting and fun side trip destinations in 5 cities, on 2 islands, and in 2 wine country regions New bike tourers will find equipment information, packing advice, and safety tips, among other helpful trip suggestions. And all riders will find the guidance to experience the trip of a lifetime.

Bicycling The Pacific Coast

Author: Vicky Spring
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 1594852073
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
CLICK HERE to download the 42 mile ride near Anacortes and the 48 mile ride along the Oregon Coast from Bicycling the Pacific Coast * Bicycle touring the Pacific Coast is outlined in one trip or four separate adventures * Road directions, points of interest, and available restrooms and provisions all built into daily mileage logs * Elevation profiles and Table of Essentials overview for each day's ride From Canada to the Mexican border, Bicycling the Pacific Coast is the most popular guidebook to bicycle touring this gorgeous edge of the U.S. Tom Kirkendall and Vicky Spring guide you turn by turn along the length of Pacific Coast Bicycle Route -- all 1816.5 miles. These forty-two suggested daily itineraries (averaging 53 miles each) begin and end at campsites. Everything you need to know about each day's ride is included: from tunnel-riding strategies to where to buy a new derailer, from one-of-a-kind museums along the way to side trips to lonely lighthouses and towering sand dunes. Cyclists will find a quick-glance Table of Essentials for each daily itinerary, listing availability of bike shops, beach access, hiking trails, youth hostels, and activities while touring through California, Washington, and Oregon.

Critical Mass

Author: Chris Carlsson
Publisher: AK Press
ISBN: 9781902593593
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Documenting 10 years of fun, radical, spontaneous bicycle demonstrations that challenge the autocentric world.

Two Wheels North

Author: Evelyn McDaniel Gibb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
A captivating account of a journey in 1909 that today we can only dream about--one that finds two boys on the road not only to Seattle, but also to manhood.

Bicycling the Pacific Coast

Author: Tom Kirkendall
Publisher: Seattle : Mountaineers
ISBN: 9780898865622
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
It's 1,816.5 miles as the bike pedals down the Pacific Coast from Vancouver, BC, to the Mexican border. But you won't take a wrong turn with veteran authors Tom Kirkendall and Vicky Spring to guide you. They've included information on road conditions, availability of provisions, accessible campgrounds, and points of interest.

South Away

Author: Meaghan Marie Hackinen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781988732633
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"South Away is an adventure story of the author's bicycle trip with her sister from Terrace, BC along the West coast to (almost) the tip of the Baja Peninsula. Meaghan Marie Hackinen experiences apprehension and determination as she camps in the dense forests of northern Vancouver Island and in frigid Mexican deserts; encounters strange men, suicidal highways and monster trucks; strong winds and violent storms; flat ties and broken spokes. Her couch-surfacing adventures provide an insight into the "kindness of strangers" en route. Accompanying the travel memoir is an inner journey, related through flashbacks and memories, as the author begins to better understand her relationship with her parents, grandmother, and sister. In attempting to balance risk with safety, she arrives at a minimalist philosophy of living, which requires "physical stamina and mental ingenuity." The style is engaging and personable; the images of landscape and seascape are imaginative and memorable. South Away is a rare roadtrip story--with a female lead and a female companion, a Canadian Hobbit tale of adventure and miraculous events."--

The Cave

Author: Tim Krabbe
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374529167
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
A stunning psychological thriller about friship, drugs, and murder from the author of The Vanishing. Egon Wagter and Axel van de Graaf met when they were both fourteen and on vacation in Belgium. Axel is fascinating, filled with an amoral energy by which the more prudent, less adventurous Egon is both mesmerized and repelled. Even as a teen, Axel has a strange power over those around him. He defies authority, seduces women, breaks the law. Axel chooses Egon as a friend, a friendship that somehow ures over time and ends up determining Egon's fate. During his university studies, Egon frequents Axel's house in Amsterdam, where there is a party every night and women fill the rooms. Though Egon chooses geology over Axel's life of avarice and drug dealing, he remains intrigued by his friend's conviction that the only law that counts is the law he makes himself. Egon believes that Axel is a demonic figure who tempts others only because he knows they want to be tempted. By the time he is in his forties, Egon finds himself divorced and with few professional prospects. He turns for help to Axel, who sends him to Ratanakiri, a fictional country in Southeast Asia. Axel gives Egon a suitcase to deliver-and Egon never returns. Utterly compelling and resonant, The Cave is an unforgettable story of betrayal in the spirit of Tim Krabbé's remarkable first novel, The Vanishing.

Bicycling the Backroads of Northwest Oregon

Author: Philip N. Jones
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 9780898863406
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
Beautiful vistas, afternoon picnics by sparkling lakes, historic points of interest, and lush flower fields await the cyclist who ventures out of the city onto the backroads of Northwest Oregon. This fully updated guide in the popular Bicycling the Backroads series presents information on scenic bicycle loop tours with an expanded choice of day, weekend, and longer rides through low- traffic, rural, and semi-rural areas.

75 Classic Rides Northern California

Author: Bill Oetinger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781594857843
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Ride the most beautiful routes in one of the most beautiful parts of the nation -- downloadable cue sheets for each ride!

Bicycling the Oregon Trail

Author: Don Weinell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870046124
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
In 2012 author, blogger and long-distance bicyclist Don Weinell undertook a quest to retrace the 2100 miles of the Oregon Trail - on bicycle. Bicycling the Oregon Trail describes, in both word and picture, the history, landscape, landmarks, and people that Weinell encountered along the way. Bicycling the Oregon Trail includes GPS coordinates for important landmarks and maps showing the route Weinell took as he made his way from Missouri to Oregon on bicycle. --Amazon.