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Saturday May 22, 2021 #
Biking (Bikepacking) 4:30:00 [1] 65.0 km (4:09 / km)
shoes: Instinct 2021 March overhaul
Drumheller bike pack adventure with Myka, Carbon and Keith.
Sooooo nice to get out and have an adventure again.
Started at “the world’s largest dinosaur” statue in Drumheller. Rode out past Midland Provincial Park with some great river valley badlands terrain and scenery including a stop at the world’s tiniest church (“it can seat 1000 people, 6 at a time”... welcome to country humour), a climb up out of the river valley and a stop at Horsethief Canyon viewpoint. Soon we hit the gravel and rode to Munson where we found a spot to hide from the wind and have our lunch. Windy all day, coming from the southeast. Continued to Michichi with a fun short off-road section to connect two roads. Also got passed by a piece of farm machinery so huge that his gigantic wide tires touched both sides of this double-lane road. I was jealous of his gigantic touchscreen navigation versus my iPhone. Pulled into the Michichi Dam Recreation Area which was a possible camping option but we choose something reservable instead, in case the May Long Weekend was busy. Continued to Delia which had a cute little Main Street. At the campground, we had the entire soft grassy tent area (mmmm.... love it when the tent pegs go in so easily) and cook shelter to ourselves. A windy night, so the Duplex tent had zero condensation (in other words, the wind was rolling through our tent all night long. Not my favourite tent for that weather (would prefer something that blocks the wind better with a fly that comes down to the ground) but it is light, spacious, tall and so easy to set up, so it is great in most other conditions.
Nice to have the cook shelter for dinner out of the wind.
Definitely the longest day yet for the knee but was able to spin easy gears on the mountain bike the whole time and the little bit of climbing wasn’t long or very steep. Knee did fine all day and wasn’t complaining that evening or the next day.
Sooooo nice to get out and have an adventure again.
Started at “the world’s largest dinosaur” statue in Drumheller. Rode out past Midland Provincial Park with some great river valley badlands terrain and scenery including a stop at the world’s tiniest church (“it can seat 1000 people, 6 at a time”... welcome to country humour), a climb up out of the river valley and a stop at Horsethief Canyon viewpoint. Soon we hit the gravel and rode to Munson where we found a spot to hide from the wind and have our lunch. Windy all day, coming from the southeast. Continued to Michichi with a fun short off-road section to connect two roads. Also got passed by a piece of farm machinery so huge that his gigantic wide tires touched both sides of this double-lane road. I was jealous of his gigantic touchscreen navigation versus my iPhone. Pulled into the Michichi Dam Recreation Area which was a possible camping option but we choose something reservable instead, in case the May Long Weekend was busy. Continued to Delia which had a cute little Main Street. At the campground, we had the entire soft grassy tent area (mmmm.... love it when the tent pegs go in so easily) and cook shelter to ourselves. A windy night, so the Duplex tent had zero condensation (in other words, the wind was rolling through our tent all night long. Not my favourite tent for that weather (would prefer something that blocks the wind better with a fly that comes down to the ground) but it is light, spacious, tall and so easy to set up, so it is great in most other conditions.
Nice to have the cook shelter for dinner out of the wind.
Definitely the longest day yet for the knee but was able to spin easy gears on the mountain bike the whole time and the little bit of climbing wasn’t long or very steep. Knee did fine all day and wasn’t complaining that evening or the next day.