The Ontario Bikepacking thread

[FastTimesKeymaster]

Over the past few years I have been assembling, what I think will be, an amazing Ontario bikepacking adventure. The loop consists of a roughly 400km pilgrimage through Muskoka’s rugged shield. Loam, slabs and remote lakes.

This was on the calendar last fall but the snow came early. I’m down for some weather but this is a pretty exposed and secluded loop and the call was made to hold off until this season.

All are welcome but this is a pretty advanced trip and proper gear and experience is required.

Dates are flexible and open to discussion. This loop would be best completed over 3-4 days.

[micah356Participant]

I’m interested, around when are you thinking?

[singleandfixedParticipant]

I was thinking of riding Uxbridge to Lindsay rail trail at some time, just one day trip as I can’t do overnighters at this time. I’ve never been to Uxbridge and am not familiar with this area. My question is where is the best place to park my vehicle, that’s closest to the trailhead ?… Multi day off-road bike packing trips is something that I always wanted to do, but for now I can only do day trips as I have to be back home each night.

[FastTimesKeymaster]

Hi @singleandfixed I’ve ridden that bit of rail trail a few times. It’s not the best section in my opinion, mostly with regards to views and variety of terrain. It does get interesting towards Peterborough however, with big trestle bridges,

Here is a link to a small trip we did a few years ago. We began from the ballpark at the head of the trail. I’ll see if I can find a map for you. I’m not sure what the parking situation would be but imagine it’s fine as long as it’s not overnight.

Ontario Bikepacking Trip From The Headwaters To The Shoreline

I see you ride the creek. I have found that going up the creek or the Humber to the rail trail is a nicer day trip personally. You can loop it up quite nicely actually. You can find the route and others like it in the “Share Your Urban Loops” thread.

https://www.ridingfeelsgood.com/topic/share-your-urban-loops

Have a fun trip!

[Matthew KadeyParticipant]

The date for the 2020 BT 700 Grand Depart has been set for Sunday July 12. And now there is the option to add-on the new GNR bikepacking route for nearly 1200 km of adventure riding. More info here: www.bt700.ca
And you can read about the journey that Mike Nyby took on the BT 700 last year here: https://www.ridingfeelsgood.com/the-fellowship-of-the-tart-a-tale-of-the-butter-tart-700/

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[BlurredLinesParticipant]

This is exceptional, literally just loaded this thread up to ask if anyone had found a good way to link up Guelph area to Hamilton area… box checked!

This shares a portion of it’s path with the Cannonball 300 and gets close enough to the last RFG Spring social I was able to make it out for. Looking at making some larger gear investments this year and finding ways to explore more Ontario. Definitely have the BT 700 on the bucket list

[nybyParticipant]

Ian, you absolutely must do the BT700. It’s a really fantastic route with pretty much every type of terrain imaginable in Ontario. On your bike I highly recommend a few MTB detours we explored. Let me know if you’re going to do it and I’ll send you my optional MTB singletrack add-ons.

[FastTimesKeymaster]

Welcome to RFG @matthew_kadey Congrats on the success of the inaugural BT700. Several members and friends accepted the challenge this year and all reported good things. @nyby ‘s amazing report has me even more fired up.

Many of the connections and routes I have discovered over the years, such as the Dingle, are incorporated in the BT700 loop.

I spend an obscene amount of time linking dirt sections and dreaming of what’s possible. Hopefully we get out together one day to explore. I believe you did the C.O.L.T. with my good freeing and ridding buddy Hal.

Hope to take part in the BT700 this year.

[FastTimesKeymaster]

Today I had the absolute pleasure of riding with Iohan Gueorguiev, The Bike Wanderer If you haven’t already done so, I highly recommend you watch his incredible See The World series on YouTube. Iohan has ridden his fully loaded bike across the world, sharing some of the most epic scenery and trails an adventure seeker could dream of. He has inspired me as I have followed his journey from Alaska to Argentina. Iohan isn’t just a bikepacker, he’s simply a wonderful person. Always stopping feed wild dogs, say hello to a fellow traveler and share everything he has learned on his incredible adventures. For me, even tough I admire his travels and accomplishments on the bike, what I love most about him is his spirt and humanity. I really cant speak highly enough about him and encourage everyone to watch his entire series. Thanks for the great day Iohan. Keep being awesome. Probably should have grabbed a selfie or something but sometimes you just have to soak it in.

He’s down to join us on the RFG bike packing social next year. Cant say enough about how rad this guys is.

Many of his videos are linked in the treads above. I was lucky enough to see his, not yet released, video from Chilli and its amazing. Get caught up on the videos above and get stoked!

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Today I had the absolute pleasure of riding with Iohan Gueorguiev, the @bikewander If you haven’t already done so, I highly recommend you watch his incredible See The World series on YouTube. Iohan has ridden his fully loaded bike across the world, sharing some of the most epic scenery and trails an adventure seeker could dream of. He has inspired me as I have followed his journey from Alaska to Argentina. Iohan isn’t just a bikepacker, he’s simply a wonderful person. Always stopping feed wild dogs, say hello to a fellow traveler and share everything he has learned on his incredible adventures. For me, even tough I admire his travels and accomplishments on the bike, what I love most about him is his spirt and humanity. I really cant speak highly enough about him and encourage everyone to watch his entire series. Thanks for the great day Iohan. Keep being awesome. Probably should have grabbed a selfie or something but sometimes you just have to soak it in.

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[Matthew KadeyParticipant]

The 3rd annual BT 700 bikepacking grand depart is set for June 20th, 2021. All the details of this multi-day bike event can be found at http://www.bt700.ca

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