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By Marc-Aurèle Brothier, August 3, 2009 12:57 pm

As far as I can remember from all the travels I’ve done and experiences I had, this one goes in the top 5! When I’m looking back where it started, it makes me smile and remember me how incredible it is to travel and to meet people.

I liked this trail very much because it gave me a total different view of the USA and the people living there. We went through small towns most of the time, places where you wouldn’t go and visit if you were coming from Europe for sure. I could appreciate how friendly and helpful the people are. I know now why they have these big pick-up trucks: to pull their huge trailer anywhere in the mountain. The food isn’t great and it’s not going to change I think, we struggled to find pasta in restaurants all the time. It’s really a burger & food chains land, no doubt! But the USA are big, huge, it’s a big sky country with amazing landscapes, reason why I came back with more than 1300 photos…
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By Marc-Aurèle Brothier, June 18, 2009 4:20 pm

First thing this morning was to sort out what we will get rid of. I was almost gonna send my big Canon camera but it was too hard and I will carry it in my backpack instead. We also put the flags on
At the post office, we sent a box of 3.9kg! The trailers felt so much more easier to tow. Definitively it makes a big change! After some pasta in Canmore it was time to head to the trail to get to Banff to get some taste of the off-road of the Great Divide. We climbed up the Spray Lakes road and Simon had a kind of disfunctional cycling problem… no more energy in the legs! So he also trained to push the bike & trailer wearing his bike shoes… But he didn’t complain. He was mad at himself to not having any energy in his body.

After the climb comes the downhill (or almost should I say) to Banff on the Goat Creek trail. It was a nice feeling to be i nthe forest biking with the trailer and letting my mind thinking about the next coming days in the rockies when we will set off on Friday! That’s gonna be gorgeous! I love it already

The trailers are also stable on the gravel road, I went up to 31 mph (about 50 km/h) on the trail, but it takes a bit more distance to brake… So far no crash
Arrived in Banff we went back through the highway and I got my first flat! I haven’t had any in Switzerland for ages, but here I get one on my second day… What’s the proble? Well the front tube wasn’t set up properly and it broke right at the valve. It was pretty sketchy to stop with the weight of the trailer though. I don’t want to have one again while going downhill at 31mph, especially on the front tire, because I won’t be able to stop without crashing…

Now with less weight and less comfort as well, because it was mainly comfort things we sent, we are pretty much all set to start this gorgeous Great Divide tour down to the Mexican border!