Blog - bike travels & such

Cycle Touring Vancouver Island

This section is my chance to ramble on, to have an ongoing conversation with readers. I'll post updates & photos as I do more rides, get gear worth noting, or come across interesting stuff about cycle touring or bikepacking on Vancouver Island & the Sunshine Coast (and beyond).

See the 'search tags', listed in alpha order down the right side below. Check this list out if you want to find out if there is a post about a location - click on a tag of interest, and any relevant blog post(s) will show along the left.

Adam River Ramble

NW from Sayward along Vancouver Island's NE coast, one of the Island's big rivers, the Adam, flows into Johnstone Strait after merging with its main tributary, the (what else?) Eve River. Last year, I followed the Eve to the coast, then west to Naka Creek (a Fav campground). Now I wanted to ride up into the huge hinterland east of the Lower Adam River. See my route map below. I drove north and left my car in Sayward. This was a short ride - 2 days and one night. I'd planned t