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Chris & Margo's Wanderings: Discretion is the Better Part of Valour
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Chris and Margos Wanderings. Now at http:/ candmwanderings.wordpress.com/. Friday, October 7, 2011. Discretion is the Better Part of Valour. The Mt Hanover hike is described in Scrambles in Southwest British Columbia. It explains that the final ascent of the mountain is through a gully which is "wet and mossy", and the climbing has "moderate exposure". The boots he was wearing had done 3,000km, and as you can see were severely worn at the heels. He writes a blog. GPS track is available here. Could Masa g...
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Handlebars | Chris and Margo's Wanderings
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Chris and Margo's Wanderings. Travels and adventures of a retired couple – mainly by bike. Frame material and suspension. Racks, Panniers and Accessories. Packing List: Cuba – 2006. Packing List: Spain – 2007. Packing List: E. Europe – 2007. Packing List: Trans-Asia 2009. Travel and Camping Gear. Packing List: Bangkok to Paris. Whitehorse to Vancouver 2015. England to Crete 2014-15. Jasper to Vancouver 2014. Pacific Northwest Coast 2010. Bangkok to Paris 2009. Packing List: Bangkok to Paris. Pads, placed...
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A Touring Bike | Chris and Margo's Wanderings
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Chris and Margo's Wanderings. Travels and adventures of a retired couple – mainly by bike. Frame material and suspension. Racks, Panniers and Accessories. Packing List: Cuba – 2006. Packing List: Spain – 2007. Packing List: E. Europe – 2007. Packing List: Trans-Asia 2009. Travel and Camping Gear. Packing List: Bangkok to Paris. Whitehorse to Vancouver 2015. England to Crete 2014-15. Jasper to Vancouver 2014. Pacific Northwest Coast 2010. Bangkok to Paris 2009. Packing List: Bangkok to Paris. You are comm...
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Chris & Margo's Wanderings: February 2009
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Chris and Margos Wanderings. Now at http:/ candmwanderings.wordpress.com/. Saturday, February 28, 2009. More Photos on Flickr; Resting after 3000km. We've put up a few more photos. We realized we'd missed the photos from the most spectacular day in Yunnan - the day of a high pass and steep terracing- so these have now been added to the Yunnan set. We've also put up a set from our visit to Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden in southern Yunnan. All sets. For this trip are now gathered into a collection.
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Chris & Margo's Wanderings: Sore Feet
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Chris and Margos Wanderings. Now at http:/ candmwanderings.wordpress.com/. Saturday, September 24, 2011. I've heard these 24 hour navigation events described as 8 hours of fun followed by 16 hours of character building. They're tough, but I enjoy the challenge in a perverse way, and the odd assortment of eccentric and analytical masochists which they seem to collect. This was the North American Rogaine Championships, held on September 10th to 11th at Lundblom Lake, just east of Merritt, BC. Chris had pai...
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Gearing | Chris and Margo's Wanderings
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Chris and Margo's Wanderings. Travels and adventures of a retired couple – mainly by bike. Frame material and suspension. Racks, Panniers and Accessories. Packing List: Cuba – 2006. Packing List: Spain – 2007. Packing List: E. Europe – 2007. Packing List: Trans-Asia 2009. Travel and Camping Gear. Packing List: Bangkok to Paris. Whitehorse to Vancouver 2015. England to Crete 2014-15. Jasper to Vancouver 2014. Pacific Northwest Coast 2010. Bangkok to Paris 2009. Packing List: Bangkok to Paris. Look careful...
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Chris & Margo's Wanderings: September 2007
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Chris and Margos Wanderings. Now at http:/ candmwanderings.wordpress.com/. Sunday, September 30, 2007. We are now in Galati, where the Danube makes its final turn eastward to the Black Sea. On Saturday, yesterday, we took three trains to get here from Carabia. We pedalled the 46 km or so from the town of Bechet where we had spent a night in a hotel that made the previous one, which I described as derelict. Was a scary character who felt like a mafioso. In English, and pedalled like hell. We checked i...
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Chris & Margo's Wanderings: May 2009
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Chris and Margos Wanderings. Now at http:/ candmwanderings.wordpress.com/. Monday, May 25, 2009. We pedalled up residential streets to the precisely placed dot on the map of the first bike mechanic, and rang the bell at the gate. “Pazhalska, vilasipyet mikhanik? I responded to the intercom voice. Here we met the competent and well equipped Oleg Yuganov. Our first try and last night's chance meeting had brought us to the best bike mechanic in town. For reference to other cyclists passing through Bishkek:.
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Chris & Margo's Wanderings: March 2009
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Chris and Margos Wanderings. Now at http:/ candmwanderings.wordpress.com/. Monday, March 30, 2009. Lanzhou: Shopping, bike maintenance, false start, and visas. Is in the geographic centre of China, at the Eastern end of Gansu Province. We arrived early on Thursday the. Km and truck back to Lanzhou. In favour of being sociable. We were guided to two different post offices by Jin Rong and Xiao Feng, and had coffee together before being guided. Today we solved our bicycle issues. New chains of the corre...
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Chris & Margo's Wanderings: January 2009
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Chris and Margos Wanderings. Now at http:/ candmwanderings.wordpress.com/. Thursday, January 29, 2009. Two Day River Trip to Luang Prabang. The Wreck of Slow Boat No. 34. Somehow that doesn't quite have the right ring for a rousing Stan Rogers ballad. It was an adventure, nonetheless. We boarded “Slow” Boat No. 34. Our GPS showed us moving at 25. Kmh, and any landings necessarily involved a sweeping turn to point upstream and carefully ferry to shore. The water must have been boiling along at over 10.