In the great north woods (part 9)

Day 16 The landscape now feels so tame compared to the Yukon and further north in British Columbia.. We pass farmhouses with cattle and hayf...

In the great north woods (part 5)

Day 7 The campfire smoke hovers over the Toad River before it moves slowly downstream. The river is silver grey, dusk like the evening sky. ...

In the great north woods (finale)

Day 20 We arrived in Prince George today, my final destination. While the rest of the group will continue south to Yellowstone, I have to re...

In the great north woods (part 4)

Day 6 Ryan�s cousin Alex, whose skills as a bike mechanic have been much utilized by the rest of us riders, is fishing on Lake Muncho in fro...

In the great north woods (part 3)

Day 4 We see a dead bison on the side of the road today. Blood had dribbled out of its mouth onto the pavement. It must have been recently h...

In the great north woods (part 8)

Day 12 I�m tired during the last stretch into Fort St. John. It's cold and the sky is overcast. It was sunny when we started, but a stor...

In the great north woods (part 7)

Day 11 We're within 80 kilometers of Fort St. John and the landscape has flattened and become considerably more worn. There are frequent...

In the great north woods (part 2)

Day 3 Spread out for as far as I can see on either side of the roads are the endlessly rolling boreal flats, like a computer games' dep...

In the great north woods (part 6)

Day 9 The night we camped at Summit Pass, I woke up early in the pre-dawn fog and hiked an old access trail a few miles into an alpine valle...

In the great north woods (part 1)

A ten-part series on environmental degradation, wilderness conservation and the Cyclist borealis Our first day out it rained. It started ge...