Bike Camping, Algonquin Park Loop

To answer your question, why drive all the way to Algonquin Park to go biking? In short, hills. In lieu of the Kancamagus Highway, NH, or the Coquihalla Highway, BC, highway 60 across Algonquin is the best, most scenic, granny gear that loaded tour bike till you wanna puke I know of in Ontario. Ditto for highway 35 north towards Dorset. Hill climbs to the horizon, on a hot summer day with deer flies nipping behind your ears when you can't go any faster. But its not all masochistic, what goes up must come down. One nasty descent in particular is guaranteed to set your personal self-propelled land speed record. Bring ski goggles, google bike parachutes, zoom zoom!

This is a two day loop of 267 kilometers ( http://www.gmap-pedom... (http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4599855) ) starting at aunty's cottage, Oxe Tung Lake. Day one goes across the park, with occasional nose dives into passing lakes to cool off, heads south to Manouth, and ends at the Pine Grove Point campground across from the Kingscott Lake access road. Day 2 goes through Wilberforce, Halliburton, Dorset, and back to Oxe Tung Lake. Along the latter stretch expect to get passed by real athletes training for Huntsville's annual 70.3 Ironman.

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Leave Saturday very early in the morning 5 to 6 AM-ish from a Tim Hortons of your choice. Carpool, bike rack gear up the 400. It is now 9 AM and we're loading panneirs and/or hooking up trailers to bikes at aunty's cottage. Stuff a monster breakfast at the last civilization before the western park entrance. It is now 10 AM, the first long hill got the oxygen flowing. Tea Lake is on our left, never too early for a swim.

Join the motley crew, bring some attitude, show your tattoos, git-r-done!