Great Divide Mountain Bike Route

Last time, we talked about a couple of new programs Priority has taken on this past year.

So this week, we get to hear all about his numb pinky finger and why joining Ryan Van Duzer for a segment of the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route could have caused it.

I could go into all kinds of details about this trip, but I'm sure you would rather hear it from Conor.

So [laughs] let's get into this episode of Bike Talk with Dave with Conor Swiegel.

Ryan does a great job of like, "Here's where it is, and here's some of the, um, uh, amenities along the way.

Here's where you can get water," et cetera, et cetera.

So he went from a week-long trip to freaking the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route, which is 2,500-ish miles from, uh, Canadian border to the Mexico border.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Um, that's off-road especially, like, uh, the Great Divide Mountain Bike Trail is awesome with the, uh, Adventure Cycling Association.

And that's, Colorado Trail allows bikes and, uh-

Mm-hmm

So I, I just learned of it, and I was just living in Helena, Montana, only 65 miles from Butte here.

And it is on this Great Divide Mountain Bike Route, as well as Butte here.

But again, I just, uh, I just moved back to Butte two and a half years ago.

Bought a very humble, um, but comfortable home, and the time was right.

'Cause-

Yeah

... and especially here in Butte, Montana, because the vast majority of my riders are doing the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route, which is just booming in popularity.

I mean, and every year it gets more and more popular.

So those are the two things we are talking about today.

And then next week, we are going to hop on the trails with Ryan Van Duser, for a 550-mile section of the Great Divide mountain bike route.

Connor and a crew of 25 others joined Doozer for a flat, easy, tailwind, downhill, paved section of Doozer's 2,500-mile journey from Canada to Mexico down the spine of the Rockies on the Great Divide mountain bike route.

Now, you know I am being sarcastic.

on how easy that was.

It's super fun and super interesting.

Of course, next week, tune back in.

We get to hear all about Connor's experience and in joining ryan van duzer on the great divide mountain bike route and it is not a downhill tailwind paved super easy section of trail for sure so be sure to subscribe follow bookmark whatever you need to do so you don't miss it now in this episode you might also have heard me refer to my new youtube channel If you've been a listener for a while, you may have checked it out.

Like I want to do the, I'm not wanting to, I'm planning this big bike adventure next year that she has no interest in doing.

The Great Divide mountain bike route, which is from...

You were telling me about this.

Yeah, so I'm going to go northbound from the New Mexico border to... of mexico um along the continental divide on mostly gravel roads and double track but some single track and some paved roads um all the way to banff um so it's 2700 miles it's self-supported so i've got a tent and a sleeping bag and all the stuff that's awesome

Like this was the right decision for me at the right time.

Yeah.

Um, I think that's another reason to keep the vision board around is to sort of check in on, am I actually doing some of these things that I said I wanted to do and that's one of the reasons I had to retire or that I wanted to retire? Um, like I think finishing the great divide mountain bike route is a, is a big goal for the first year of retirement.

Um, I bought an, I bought a ski pass that I can use both locally and out West.