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What about a link to the Trans Canada Trail:

http://www.tctrail.ca/thetrail.php

Looking at that map, I’d say its only a matter of time until *things* are connected into a massive Mountain West Loop.

Why is there nothing on Canada, the bike packing mecca of the world. No trans canada trail? KVR? a million others?

Why don’t you contribute then?

The quads have turned much of the KVR and TCT into a sandbox. Canadians are usually pretty good about following rules, but in this case the motorheads have decided the rules are for someone else and have taken over the route.

Any other routes out there for Europe? Maybe some Germany/Italy/Central Europe stuff? All this US stuff is great but I don’t live there right now.

Trails in Switzerland: http://www.swisstrails.ch/

How about some Pennsylvania stuff i know a 100 mile loop in western PA

Kruz, im in CT and bummed to see nothing close by, NY or PA. What’s the western PA loop ur talking about?

This site is what you make of it, so make some contributions from your local area rather than waiting for others to do it for you. Bikepacking = Exploration. It’s the name of the game, it’s not supposed to be plug-n-play. A good example is this thread: http://www.bikepacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=954.0

Well mom thanks for the advice, it appears you will be of no help then. Just lookin for a starting off point.

Cris the western PA loop is wrongly described sorry it is in State college PA in a town called Coburn where the Wilderness 101 backcountry race takes place it is in Rothrock statepark and the website is http://www.Mtntouring.com or you could google it I’m pretty sure you are allowed to camp along the trail as it is a state park the reason i am not 100 % on that is this is my first year entering the race

There is also a 36 mile loop connected with the Ghost town trail In western PA. It is a very scenic trail easy tho just rails to trails stuff you are not allowed to camp but it is very remote along the ghost town trail nobody cares if you camp anyway im a local who rides it all the time as i live about 1/2 mile from an entrance to the trail

A correction: Rothrock is a State Forest and not a State Park. There is huge a difference in what is allowed as far as primitive camping between the two. The Wilderness 101 (last I road it), goes through a number of small State Parks (Whipple Dam, Poe Paddy, Penn Roosevelt and near Poe Valley.

I’m curious to this loop route associated with the Ghost Town Trail. As far as I know, the Ghost Town is pretty linear from Ebensburg to Blacklick with a branch up to White Mill. From Blacklick you can take the Hoodlebug N to Indiana or S to Blarsville. From Blairsville you can take the West Penn Trail to Saltsburg, and from there branch N for a couple of miles before a dead end (although creative types can make it to Apollo, or branch west and pick up the Westmoreland Hertitage trail and end up at Slickville. None of that is remotely near a loop… so Kruz, where is the connector?

Chris: I’ll give you hint for something in NY… Check the Trip Reports section of this website

There are two abandoned bridges that the ebensburg mainliner had a 3 page article on saying that township was going to repair them and resurface them which they just finished about a month ago the bridges are located between twin rocks and the road going to cardiff you drive underneith them leaving twin rocks also if you start in colver turn at regan junction and keep going past the bridge in belsano you will ride right onto them it is a straight shot it is worth checking out it is as easy as ghost town trail but it has some technical parts

another thing its not on any maps yet but you are allowed to ride it its just no motorized vehicles

also Research the C&I railroad and colver history you will prob see it in your research you could just google it and it will come up

also you i forgot to mention you are correct about my mix up with the state fores/state park thing thanks for the correction

Central Europe has been working on these for a bit: http://www.eurovelo.org/routes/ though I have to say I have yet to find detailed information on the routes. I’ll be trying some of them out this summer.

Please someone list the PCT…i want more info on this trail

The rideability of the PCT is 0 (zero), as bikes are not allowed anywhere on the PCT since it has Natl Scenic Trail status. Given that, it wouldn’t make sense to list it here.

Anyone working on a PCT for mountain bikepackers? I would like to plan something out like that, maybe do a full west coast loop? Varying from easy to extremely technical? Maybe involving the Oregon 3 rivers down to Lake Tahoe or Moab, to Arizona then up the Divide???

I think someone should consider the longest continous beach costs and biking them, or making a circle around some island beach….so much potential for beach riding.

eturk

2 new mountainbiking trails in the French Alps. I rode a part of them and they are great!
GPS info can be fount on their website;
http://www.vtt.alpes-haute-provence.fr/grande-traversee-vtt-transverdon/

Nice post. I learn something new and challenging on sites I stumbleupon every
day. It’s always useful to read through articles from other authors and use something from other web sites.

Jelle, would you creatie a route page for them here on bikepacking.net? That’s how it works, we all write up what we know.

Same to others who know of a route that doesn’t have a page yet.