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Jon & Carla's Great Divide Mountain Bike Adventure
2006
(or, Two Tails on the Trail)

In 1998, we rode across the United States from Oregon to Virgina with our children, Jodie, age 15 and Todd, age 12. Read about our trip using the links below. Now the kids have grown up and left home, so we we are taking the dogs. This time it's a mountain bike trip through the Rocky Mountains, roughly following the continental divide, called the Great Divide route, mapped by Adventure Cycling. We are driving from our home in Gaylord, MI on July 29th for our starting point in Rooseville, MT, on the Canadian border. From there we will travel roughly 2470 miles to our destination of Antelope Wells, NM, on the Mexican border. The route will be about 85% dirt and gravel roads, 10% pavement and 5% singletrack trails. We will carry all of our gear for camping in two "BOB" trailers, plus panniers. We hope to average about 40 miles a day and have three months to complete the trip. Lander and Afton, our English Cockers will run about 20 miles per day and ride in the trailers the rest of the time. We will experience wilderness, scenery and wildlife. There will be many hard times, but many exhilerating m

oments as well. Why do we do this? Because God has given us a wonderful country and this is the best way to be thankful for it.

We will be posting blogs as often as we can get on the internet at a library. Check in frequently to see how we are doing. Feel free to post a comment as well. We'd love to share our trip with you.

Jon and Carla Elenz,
Lander and Afton (aka, Two Tails)

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Day 14, Priest Pass Fire

This entry was posted on 9/6/2006 1:07 PM and is filed under uncategorized.

This is a blog/question for the ranchers(Ross, Cody, and Gail) who helped us out at the Priest Pass fire. How did you guys make out with the fire. Did you have to move the cattle, or your neighbors? Have thought about the situation many times since leaving you. We did see another fire around Lincoln, and then we were routed around the Purdy Fire east of the Tetons at Union Pass, Wy. If you get a chance, please respond back as a comment or e-mail us at bikefam@freeway.net . Thanks for your help. Jon