Ideas for summer trip?

[isthatreal]

My friend and I have done LE to JOG, The Alps & The Dolomites in recent years and are starting to think about what to do this summer...

It would be good to do something a bit different rather than just ticking off say The Pyrenees... any ideas? We were thinking maybe USA?

We don't however just want to go and tour a foreign clime. It is necessary that it is a tough physical challenge, including serious climbing...

Many thanks!

 

[jay clock]

Canada to Mexico down the Pacific coast? Always struck me as nice. Or UK to Africa (France and Spain and a day over in Tangiers)? Round Lake Ontario?

oops just seen the climbing bit.... Denver to San Fran? Baja California if you want an adventure (not for the summer though, too hot)

 

[Creamcrackered]

Pamir Highway

 

[pinkkaz]

I'm going to Iceland with the husband!

 

[Cathryn]

Coast to Coast America?

 

[xilios]

Check out adventure cycling, they have a couple routes that cover only national parks in the western US
http://www.adventurecycling.org/routes/greatparks.cfm

 

[Randochap]

May I recommend British Columbia.

You could do a west to east, east-west, or fly in to some place like White Horse in the Yukon and decend via Alaska Highway, or, my preference, Highway 37 (Stuart Cassiar).

If you really wanted to do the big one, decend the Dempster Highway from Inuvik, south, then down the Alcan and #37. Trip of a lifetime, guaranteed.

Check my website (stories) for a few adventures, Especially the ones titled "Cougar, Cougar, Burning Bright" and "Full Circle." I hope to get the northern tour up sometime over the winter.

Also, see my photos.

 

[bof]

Roughly parallel the US continental divide by road?

 

[amaferanga]

1) Atlas Mountains, Morocco
2) Simien Mountains, Northern Ethiopia
3) Bale Mountains, Southern Ethiopia

How long do you have? What sort of bikes do you have? Do you want it to be tough cycling with nice comfortable hotels and good food at the end of the day or are you prepared to rough it a bit? If you're not then probably ignore the above...

 

[kruuemel]

What about Asia?
Vietnam is an awesome cycling country with many climbs on the inland and always the option to follow the much easier and flat coastal line!
North to South or the other way around!

 

[Tony]

East coast Oz? Some nasty hills there.