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Just finished the BC Epic 1000 from Merritt to Fernie BC

Great scenery and wide variety of trails (something for everyone to love or dread)

One of the coolest things was how the finish line was in a cool place to hang out (Town of Fernie).  The majority of people stayed a day or two to greet the following racers at the finish line and party together

Flowers were fantastic and I will try to edit my iphone photos so it does it some justice. Need a real camera with a proper focal length and not a wide angle so the flowers appear closer together as they would appear to the naked eye (plus some Doppler image enhancement to make up for how they appear while moving after pedaling 14 hour days)

Dot stalkers were wondering why my dot was stuck just before the finish for a day (the following racers were expecting to have to cross roadkill), but I did find video evidence of why the penalty.  While waiting for the train to clear the crossing just before the finish I went off course to hot dog in the skills park
https://vimeo.com/223918690

looking at individual histories
JP was about 7 hours faster than BL to Salida
pick a point for for an individual and it tells how long ago it pinged
so for JP add 46 hours to the ping time to compare to BL and others

You gotta be kidding me - NORTH Vancouver??? I thought just us southern boys did stuff like that!

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Yes but I still live in the south part of North Van (south of Bad Boys Trail aka Race'n Prickly Line)

the duct tape probably would have lasted a lot longer
I just stopped riding it when I made it home and traded the bike for car repairs
the car mechanic made a splint out of an aluminum tube and epoxy and the bike is still going

https://fiberfix.com/get-fiber-fix13742603

or similar product should be available at hardware stores
just wet with water to activate resin
if the break is really bad, add tent poles or arrows as splints


or just duct tape  
this repair worked for 20km of hills for a completely broken chain stay

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=tour+divide+facebook

Hey Smart A$$

so your first link's latest post is from 2016
2nd link's first post is from May 2017
3rd link's first post is June 13 2017

None of these seem to be the "best site" to actually follow the race
anyway tbmd9er said he already did searches

I thought they had to use the new High Rockies Trail due to grizzlies
and what happens when they get to the orange line through Fernie? 
What is now the official route?

what happened to Alice?

Hey Aaron,
How are things looking for this event this summer? The blogspot is no longer accessible. Anywhere else to find info?
Anyone else interested for this year?
Cheers!

Hey Adam
want to car pool from Vancouver?

GO GO GO Fiona and Paul
no snow reroutes for them and it looks like they are battling by Snow Bowl right now
fallen trees are probably more of a problem than snow

last year for the last 90% to 99% I was counting switchbacks, but for last 1% (99% to 100%) I had to count steps just to keep motivation
I was thinking every 3 steps = 1 m and I needed to do only 300 m, and that was on a dry trail without much in the way of stairsteps

weather report shows the rim should have been well above freezing at the coldest point last night

what happened to Jason Shearer and Dan Holmes?

the data for the dots is only the horizontal distance
the last few miles feels like climbing Everest by the time you biked across the State and hiked across the canyon with a bike on your back

SKT being the opposite of FKT, 

what is SKT and FKT?

looks like dave wicks had to return to Sonoita
hopefully better luck for the rest of your trip dave

Jeff Hemperly going for the Single Speed 750 record..

is he getting a tattoo along the way?

no problem
if you start at the south rim in the morning, you will reach the closure area in the late afternoon
short nap, then proceed after 4:30 and ride out to Jacob Lake at night while the snow is crusty and frozen

how crusty is the snow at night?
can you stick to the regular off-highway trail and ride around the ADOT?

and again what a bummer for Dave.  Last year he was just a down wrapped burrito in the blizzard.

I heard Rhino's grandma runs a rickshaw service from the state line to Page.  If she's not there when you arrive, just wait around a couple hours...

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