Distance: 77.36 km Ride time: 4:45:41 Average: 16.25 km/h Total: 26365 km Petter and I where literally a few minutes away from leaving town (and mobile phone coverage) for 10 days when I got a call from home. Unfortunately my moms health has been a concern for a while, and the news I got now [ Read More ]
Petter arrived in Fiambala the day after me, after hitch hiking the last 320 km. I had cycled the same distance in 4 days, so interestingly enough cycling seems to be the faster option. Petter told that there were simply too few cars passing him going in the right direction to make any good progress. [ Read More ]
Distance: 138.38 km Ride time: 5:58:31 Average: 17.53 km/h Total: 26288 km Yesterday I had been cycling uphill for more than 50 kilometers, with a short descend at the end. Today I was cashing in on the work. The first 70 kilometers where pretty much downhill, and I was enjoying the cycling a whole lot! [ Read More ]
Distance: 67.52 km Ride time: 5:07:28 Average: 13.21 km/h Total: 26150 km After the nice evening with the backpackers at the hostel in Chilecito I was a bit more tired than usual as I cycled out of town in the morning. The day started with a short 5 km descend, but the rest of the [ Read More ]
Distance: 45.73 km Ride time: 2:12:21 Average: 20.65 km/h Total: 26083 km Yesterday I had wondered how much more climbing I needed to do before reaching the top of the pass. This morning I realized that I had slept less than a kilometer from the summit. How nice to start a day with a descend. [ Read More ]
Distance: 68.20 km Ride time: 4:31:46 Average: 15.11 km/h Total: 26038 km Petter had decided to try to hitch hike his way north for a couple of days, so from the morning I was alone on the road again. I cycled out of Vila Union and asked a police officer if it was possible to [ Read More ]
Distance: 69.12 km Ride time: 3:32:26 Average: 19.24 km/h Altitude: 1153 m Total: 25970 km After another rest day at Omar’s Hotel in Vinchina (spent mostly in front of our laptops letting people know we were still alive) we had a comfortable 69 km ride into Vila Union on the program today. Compared to our [ Read More ]
Distance: 140.82 km Ride time: 6:31:23 Average: 21.65 km/h Altitude: 1405 m Total: 25901 km Normally the air out here in the mountains is very dry, and we hardly ever see a cloud. That was why I was very confused when I woke up and could feel humidity in the air. The refugio doesn’t have [ Read More ]
It was just after sunrise as we packed our bags for today’s adventure. The game plan was to cycle a couple of kilometers off road as far as the bikes would take us, and then start hiking towards the summit of a 5000 m peak we had spotted on Petters GPS. A little after 9 [ Read More ]
Distance: 12.53 km Ride time: 1:58:50 Average: 6.20 km/h Altitude: 4400 m Total: 25760 km I had just stepped outside the stone refugio in the morning when Petter said “Holy shit, there is a human skeleton over here”. At first I thought he was joking, but his observation was indeed very real. When we had [ Read More ]
