http://www.arctic2007.org Cycling 3800 miles from Vancouver to the Arctic Ocean for climate change Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:07:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The contest closed on september 6th and, with amazing reactivity, I can now reveal the winner! Congratulations to Jérôme who was the closest one to the true weight of my bike. He was still pretty far off, though, as my bike weighed 59 kgs when leaving Fairbanks. He'll get his prize as ... http://www.arctic2007.org/2007/10/04/how-much-did-the-bike-weigh/ BLM campground- Rest area with no name Not much to say about that day honestly. We have been overtaken by several absolutely massive oversize trucks which was a wee bit scary and we have been caught in a pretty severe thunderstorm. But except that, dull road and not much motivation. We ... http://www.arctic2007.org/2007/10/02/85/ We did it! We reached the Arctic Ocean monday, August 27th after more than 3200 miles and 8 weeks of cycling. The last day has been challenging since the temperature was -6 degrees when we woke up and -4 when we started cycling. The next days have been a bit more ... http://www.arctic2007.org/2007/08/30/we-did-it/ Hello, Jean and Nicolas are now at the north of the polar circle. They spend the night from wednesday to thursday just sleeping on it. Today or tomorrow they should go by the Atigun pass (1415 m/4643 ft) and consequently have some nice rises to climb... But they seem to have ... http://www.arctic2007.org/2007/08/24/cercle-polaire/ Here are some answers to the questions asked by the chlidren of the schools. (And all these questions are available here.) Where will you put your spare wheel? We each have a foldable tire and a few spare spokes. Luckily, we haven't had to use any of them so far. How many ... http://www.arctic2007.org/2007/08/20/vous-avez-encore-des-questions/ One of the aspects of this trip is to talk to people we meet on the way about their perception of climate change and the way it has changed their way of life. This summary of what we gathered so far is not scientific. First of all, Fairbanks experienced its ... http://www.arctic2007.org/2007/08/20/changement-climatique/ 7/8: Whitehorse- Summer Camp on the Klondike, 65miles All you can eat breakfast and we leave Whitehorse around noon. We have to cycle the Klondike highway first before reaching Dawson city and the beginning of the Top of the world highway. The Klondike highway is very very dull. We do not ... http://www.arctic2007.org/2007/08/20/en-garde-la-dalton/ Jean et Nicolas are now in Alaska since Wednesday (or tuesday, I'm not sure). They plan to be at Fairbanks tomorrow evening. They also saw their first grizzli. The good news is that they seem to be still alive, even if I don't have the details about this meeting. To celebrate ... http://www.arctic2007.org/2007/08/17/alaska-les-voila/ We thought that was useful to write a post on the bears to present you the kind of stories we heard and what happened when we met some. It has been pretty hard for us to have an opinion on the real danger that bear can be. Some people will talk ... http://www.arctic2007.org/2007/08/11/bear-stories/ Hi everyone, Just a small post to tell you that we are in Dawson City, after 4 days on a boring road whose only interest was to lead us north. We saw the vegetation changing and it was -2 degrees this morning when we woke up. I even broke a peg ... http://www.arctic2007.org/2007/08/11/dawson-city/