A blog about one man, one bike and thousands of kilometres...
Join me on the journey through amazing landscapes, dirt roads and tough climbs. This blog currently covers two of my big adventures on my two-wheeler friend.
Firstly, there is a trans-South-America journey which took 16 months, measured more than 20.000km and in general contained more climbing than is healthy.
And then there is USA's classic - Great Divide Mountain Bike Route cannot be underestimated in the toughness and beauty department and this time I am trying to do a semi-live coverage of the journey.
My first part of Carretera Austral -- the "south road" in Chile which was finished only about 20 years ago --- goes from Villa o'Higgins to Cochrane. You can immediatelly see a big change from pampa as this part is really green. Of course, there is a reason behind things being ...
My next bigger destination is Villa o'Higgins. If you don't see a road from El Chaltén to Villa o'Higgins than you are right -- the is none. The way is actually quite adventurous border crossing which involves two boat rides and one 6 km long pushing section on ...
El Chaltén is basically an Argentinian equivalent of Torres del Paine for hiking. Except that it is much easier -- all the campsites are free and most of the hikes can be done from the village in one day. The only exception is the 4-day trek through Paso del Viento for ...
The next stretch of a road I need to take is 210 km of paved road through pampa to another touristy place - El Chaltén. Unfortunately, the second part of the road goes directly against the headwinds. As such, I am looking up the wind forecast and plan my stay in ...
I am staying in El Calafate for two days instead of one. This is because I want to visit the famous Perito Moreno glacier and I want to have a good weather there. Mostly because I am not willing to pay for the trip if I won't get the ...
My plan from Puerto Natales to El Calafate was quite easy. First of all, I decided to change the original route (which went through the Torres del Paine) because it is a worse road (ripio in the park), it is longer, it is very hard to schedule camping correctly (the ...
I am staying in total 6 nights in Puerto Natales. The first two are before my Torres del Paine trek and the remaining 4 afterwards -- while I originally wanted to go earlier, the weather and the place itself make me stay.
As I probably mentioned in the previous posts, I ...
Torres del Paine, as the name states, is a national park in Chile with a lots of pain points this year. To be more precise, the number of visitors to the park just exploded a pas few years and what used to be "arrive to a free campsite and ...
Punta Arenas to Puerto Natales is a good stretch of the paved road with a bit more traffic than necessary. For this reason I decided to make a small detour on gravel roads and visit Rio Verde.
December 10In the late morning I am telling goodbye to everybody ...
Because there is no bike shop in Porvenir (at least, the hostel manager doesn't know about any), instead of staying two days in Porvenir I am moving to Punta Arenas.
In the morning it was raining but it stopped pretty quickly and there is sun again. I ...