Distance: 87.64 km Ride time: 5:48:54 Average: 15.11 km/h Altitude: 1889 m Total: 25206 km The nights might be perfect for camping, but from the morning it was clear that this was going to be a very hot day. We were planning to go on a dirt road over a mountain pass to the next [ Read More ]
Distance: 25.56 km Ride time: 1:12:40 Average: 21.30 km/h Altitude: 1380 m Total: 25118 km The weather during the night is perfect for camping, not too warm and not too cold. I love sleeping in my tent, and would certainly prefer it to a crowded hostel room. Waking up to a view like this in [ Read More ]
Distance: 54.28 km Ride time: 2:50:42 Average: 19.18 km/h Altitude: 1546 m Total: 25092 km After the very long and action packed day yesterday, we took it a bit easier in the morning, enjoying our oats and tea at the camp site at the National Park. Luckily the cycling was mostly downhill all the way [ Read More ]
Distance: 49.83 km Ride time: 2:40:05 Average: 18.69 km/h Altitude: 2280 m Total: 25038 km After waking up at sunrise watching the last stars and planets disappear from the sky, we could feel the wind picking up. Petter and I had been fighting some crazy head winds together in Patagonia two months ago, but this [ Read More ]
Distance: 64.15 km Ride time: 3:43:29 Average: 17.29 km/h Altitude: 2217 m Total: 24988 km After saying goodbye to Michael we took a bus back to the camp site in Uspallata where we had left our bikes. Luckily they were still there. Our plan was now to head into the mountains where our first stop [ Read More ]
During the last days we had been keeping in contact with Michael, the other Danish cyclist, who was now in Mendoza. I had been cycling with Michael until some days before Santiago, and really wanted to catch up with him before continuing north. The problem was that if we cycled the 120 km to Mendoza, [ Read More ]
Distance: 96.76 km Ride time: 5:00:35 Average: 19.35 km/h Altitude: 2039 m Total: 24924 km After our night sleeping under the stars, it was quite a sight to wake up to the sun rising over Laguna del Inca right in front of us. Petter and I both agreed that this place would make it into [ Read More ]
Distance: 47.39 km Ride time: 4:19:49 Average: 10.98 km/h Altitude: 2880 m Total: 24827 km If there is something I like to do on a bike it is to climb mountains. Today would be my kind of day! We had done the first 10 km of the climb to Paso Los Libertadores yesterday, but there [ Read More ]
Distance: 59.40 km Ride time: 3:59:23 Average: 14.89 km/h Total: 24789 km Nicolas was going to leave his work at 6 in the morning, so we were also up early, ready to cycle before sunrise. We were still going north from Santiago, and in front we could see the snowy Andes Mountains that we were [ Read More ]
Distance: 48.35 km Ride time: 3:14:23 Average: 14.95 km/h Total: 24728 km It was great to be reunited with Petter again after we last saw each other on a windy day in Southern Patagonia two months ago. Now we had been drinking beer and catching up on the roof top terrace of our downtown Santiago [ Read More ]
