You could try circling Cloudburst Mountain, that one was a lot of fun. Take a shuttle to Squamish and ride up. It would be a couple nights.

https://markbc.net/2012/10/07/sept-29-30-2012-circumnavigating-cloudburst-mountain-squamish/

OK people it looks like I'm going back in to Salsipuedes / Asamblea in Mexico!!!! Here is the map page and my blog on Bajanomads.

http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=70746&page=23#pid1105083

https://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0qQpDRiVJXsTBrbtVzgM9bWYA9ulWlgH1

Yeah that was it...

I believe stoves are allowed on planes as long as all fuel residue is removed.

Looks like a great trip, just the thing I like to do. Those are some nice photos, what setup? I use the Nikon V1 for its small size but it just isn't giving me the dynamic range I like. Here is a trip report from my recent 2 week Baja bikepacking expedition. I still need to add more photos for the last half:

http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=70746&page=20

These look good

http://www.emberlit.com/en/stoves

Also I saw a blog from a guy in Alaska who got a nice wood stove that is super light and compact, a titanium sheet that bends into a tube. It goes through a chimney in the tent roof (the protection material is included) and heats your tent up! Unfortunately I can't find the link. It was that guy who did the fatbiking trip across some part of Alaska last year I think.

I found Cass' posts:

http://www.whileoutriding.com/category/central-america-2/mexico/page/3

Cass Gilbert at While Out Riding rode through that general area, not sure if he went through the Copper Canyon or not. He seemed to have the impression that if you're just some dirty American tourist on a bike the drug cartels will probably leave you alone. But he said he got some weird vibes from some of the villages terrorized by the drug gangs.

Looks very similar to a Mukluk, I don't know why you couldn't just equip any fatbike with that gear.

And the Alpackarafts are designed to throw a moose on the front so you'd be set!

If you go to Google Earth you will see a photo beside Trigger Lake that's almost exactly the same angle you took.

Awesome! I'll be up there in a few days. I'm going the opposite direction, I'll drive west up the Bridge River to the end of the road, then hike across the alpine to a river heading north, then packraft / hike down this until it hits the Lord River. This flows north 20 km into Taseko Lake. From there I'll get on my bike and head back to Warner Pass and then down to Gold Bridge.

I was thinking of a dynamo hub but instead tried experimenting with my solar panel (roll-up marine type for my kayak)
http://www.modernoutpost.com/shop/solar-panels/232-powerfilm-r14-rollable.html
I was pleased to discover that it will charge all of my devices. I got a Pearstone battery charger for my cameras from BHPhoto ($20) and this will charge multiple camera battery types with just a swap of the plate ($2 each). I got a low voltage Energizer AA / AAA charger which runs straight off the panel's 12 V. And The Pearstone charger also has a USB out that will charge my iPhone in about an hour. But it requires strong full sunlight to do that, otherwise I get an error message from the phone.

The whole setup probably weighs about the same as the hub option. It's a bit bigger rolled up, and you can't charge while on the move, you'd have to stop somewhere. But I see this combination which looks small enough that you might be able to mount it on your bike while riding:
http://www.modernoutpost.com/shop/ready-to-go/940-kayaker-power-kit-1.html

Considering air weighs 1 kg/m3, to say, halve your total weight of say, 100 kg you'd need about 100 m3 of helium!

In a few weeks I'll be going on a big bikerafting trip and no matter what I do, there is no easy way to mount the paddle blades. The shafts are easy, they just go beside the rolled up packraft. I am thinking I could drill a hole in each blade and use this to string a rope or something which could be used to mount them. I can't imagine that the forces on the shaft would be that large that I'd contribute to premature failure of the blades (plastic). Then when I use them for paddling I can put some hockey tape over the hole. Just fishing for people's thoughts.

Cool, I want to get up there sometime. In one month I am going on my 8 day epic through the Chilcotins. I'll ride up the Bridge River road and at the end there's a mining road that goes up one of the side valleys to the north, almost to the alpine. Then I hike a bike 1 km up to the alpine, and walk / push the bike 6 km westwards over the alpine until I hit a glacial river heading north. I packraft down this 8 km until I it the Lord River, then bushwhack down the waterfall into the main valley, then packraft 20 km down the Lord River to Taseko Lake. From there, there is a well used trail going back over Warner Pass to Gold Bridge.

I just today ordered my 2014 Pugsley frameset (canvas green to blend in). I doubt I'll be able to build it up in time though, I'll use my regular front suspension mountain bike. (I sold my Mukluk to my friend in California after our latest Sea of Cortez adventure -- that bike is awesome for dune and beach riding!) Hey, we might plan a fatbike trip down a deserted canyon north of bay of LA mid-winter when it's not so hot and there's water, maybe you want to come...

Where I live in SW BC there is lots of rain so the cutbanks on the side of roads usually have ample groundwater seepage, that I just drink straight without filtering. Any surface water, i.e. a stream big enough to flow, I filter. I even drank unfiltered water from seepage in the jungles of Colombia, no problems.

Awesome post. Last weekend I made another attempt to go over Ring Pass with my packraft and bike over the snow, but it was too hard to pull. Plus spring melt was in full swing (it just got hot this weekend -- 30 degrees) and the trail was on again / off again, snow / dirt, making it impossible to pull my packraft. And the final push up to Ring Lake is super steep, would have been too hard. I'll try again in September when there's no snow and bring an ultralight kit.

Man my body is turning into a machine. I just look at the hills and before I know it I'm over them. Just feed it fuel, and my body performs.

Great summary. Go USA!

A few notes:

Water filters: there is this new Sawyer Squeeze out that is way lighter than a pump, perfect for biking. The bags tend to fall apart apparently but the filter is good. Hopefully they'll fix the bag issue soon.

Stoves: I like my Trangia the best but I haven't found a good pot system that isn't bulky. The setup that comes with the Trangia isn't ideal. So I put my own set together with a Clikstand, and another MSR bowl. I got one of those folding titanium sporks and all my cooking gear goes between these two bowls, the Trangia pot goes inside the MSR on (I had to grind it a bit to reduce the lip diameter). Now I have a really small complete cook set that can hold a litre. I haven't seen anyone else's that is this small that still has decent capacity. I think I should start marketing and selling them, since no one seems to have figured out how to make an effective, small Trangia stove setup.

Tent: I got a Tarptent Moment which is good. One thing about tents is that if there is rain you don't want a ground sheet because it will create a lake under your tent. Also, the Moment has good visibility in all directions, important if you are in bear country and don't want to be surprised.

Spot GPS in case you get into trouble?

I love my new Alpackaraft. It is 4 pounds and goes on the rear rack. You can also use it as a mattress so the space can be somewhat offset by not bringing a mattress. You also need paddles. This greatly increases your versatility if in areas with rivers or lakes or ocean.

Awesome! I'm planning to try to complete my Callaghan Valley / Squamish Valley circle route next weekend that I tried last March but failed because the snow was too deep. I ride up / snowshoe over the pass, then go down to the Squamish River on the other side and then packraft down that.

The raft works great with a bike. But I found I have to put some other weight on the back of the raft, otherwise the thing goes vertical with the bike on the front and me not in it. I did some pretty hairy water on the Squamish last time, maybe up to Class III, but I'm not well versed on how they rate these things. The one issue is that when you go over gravelly / bouldery riffles, you can scrape your ass on them which isn't fun. You have to lean way back and lift your ass up. So the more padding you have down there on the floor the better, the floor is otherwise just an unprotected thin sheet of fabric.

Ha, actually I took it techy riding down Mt Fromme on Saturday (Executioner / Dreamweaver). It does pretty good, I dropped the pressure to 5 psi. But I bottomed out once on a root and at the end of the ride I noticed the wheel was wobbling (a Surly Rolling Darryl). So it isn't really suited for technical North Shore riding but it can definitely handle it well. It just rolls right over the roots. When they come out with a full suspension, or even just front suspension, version that will be a killer bike.

I finally got around to writing up the trip report for my snowbiking adventure last March. The next day I went packrafting with my bike too, down the Squamish River, but I haven't written that up yet. I have lots of video, but man it's time consuming to sort through all that and edit it. I think I'll get a more powerful computer to do that, and save my small laptop for travelling.

Full report here:

http://markbc.net/2013/05/12/snowbiking-the-callaghan-whistler/