North To Alaska

This is a route map of our Five For Alaska Tour de Cure generated by Bob Brown, our route planning guru. Bob has spent countless hours over the past few months researching any aspect of our intended route of travel for safe roads, lodging, and services. It’s no small undertaking in logistics to get all of us safely on our way each day and to plan for contingencies that might arise because of weather, mechanicals, or other acts of nature.

Yesterday, Bob, his wife, Diane, and his son, Derek, took off on the eastern leg of the journey from Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are roughly following portions of the Northern Tier and Lewis and Clark bike routes into Butte, Montana. We all meet up in Butte around the 13th of June, stage the 14th, and depart on the 15th.  Our route traces north on the western edge of the Montana Rockies passed Glacier NP and on into Canada through Banff and Jasper. Then we’ll skirt the Canadian Rockies along the border of Alberta and British Columbia, cross the NE corner of BC into the Yukon, traverse the Yukon and drop SW into Anchorage, then turn  back north to Denali NP and finally into Fairbanks. The return trip to Montana will take us a little further south of our outbound route into the Yukon and cross most of SW and Central British Columbia. Everything we see, do, and experience will be posted on this blog. So, stay tuned for an epic adventure and the unraveling tale of some crazy cyclists who seek adventure on two wheels.