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Stage 2013/01 [A001] | ||
| Vancouver - Blaine - Bellingham | |||
| 66 mi / 106 km | |||
| 685 m (garmin etrex) | |||
| Cycling from Vancouver to Bellingham. Pacific coast Vancouver - San Francisco on a bicycle |
Cycling from Vancouver to San Francisco following the Pacific Coastline.Stage from Vancouver to Bellingham crossing Alex Fraser Bridge. |
 Tour start at the International Airport of Vancouver. Thanks to Lufthansa we’ve arrived in Chicago on schedule, a huge praise to united for the connecting flight to Vancouver: hadn’t thought it possible that you would still take us to Vancouver. And after all only with a delay of 5 hours. Great. |
 From the airport, we followed the Bridgeport Trail east, which deviated from the suggestion by Adventure Cycling. |
 Right at the beginning of this-year’s stage, there is a condition-check: via a steep ramp we reach one of the longest cable-stayed bridges ever: the Alex Fraser Bridge. |
 Including the two access ramps, the bridge is 2.5 km long and hung with stay cables at two pylons, which are about 160 m high. We enjoy the ride, because the next spectacular bridge with similar dimensions awaits us only about 2000 km further to the south. |
 We continue towards Blaine, where they . . . |
 . . . actually allow us to enter the USA after a long embarrassing interrogation. |
 In the federal state of Washington we constantly look at the summits of the Cascade Range on the horizon. A first attunement that there will be some cumulative elevation gain to be managed on this year’s tour. Although we only follow the coast. |
 Some of the many meters in altitude. |
 Beer of the day: Chuckanut from Bellingham, Washington. |