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North Rim of the Grand Canyon MTB TourNorth Rim of the Grand Canyon MTB Tour June 11-15 1996A trip report by Alasdair Arthur
In the summer of 1996 my friend Tracey and I spent a few weeks in the States sightseeing and mountain biking as part of an extended round-the-world trip. As part of that, we joined an organised MTB tour to the Grand Canyon. This is the story of that trip.
The sight of several thousand dollars worth of full suspension mountain bikes doing circuits of the motel car park reassured us that we were in the right place. It was 8am in the morning, and the dry air was already getting hot in Kanab, Utah as the cast and crew for Kaibab Mountain Bikes' Grand Canyon tour assembled. It certainly seemed as if we were going to be well looked after since there were as many Kaibab crew as there were customers. One of the things which can make or break a group tour is the other people on it, and we soon
The Lakeland LoopThis is the story of the cycling trip around England's Lake District which two friends and I did in 1995. It's a challenging route, but a rewarding one. If possible, try to avoid the optional excursion to hospital which we needed to make!
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realised that we'd struck lucky. Jimmy was our tour leader, a man who clearly possessed love for and knowledge of the country in equal measure; Chris, a keen biker and a skilled mechanic; Jerry, a soft-spoken man who'd given up corporate life for ski instructing and bike guiding, and Nick, a young student soon to return to Salt Lake City to study. The man behind the wheel of the main support truck was Hawk, a taciturn and weathered character who seemed very much content following his own path, slightly apart from the rest.