Montague Paratrooper Mountain Bike Transformation (Part 5 - more mods)

Still enjoying my Montague bike and it has evolved into a great city bike.  Over the past year I made a few more modifications some new and some repurposed from other bikes of ours....

Titanium U-type solid lock mount takes up the only bottle mount points so I picked up velco strap bottle holder.  Added fenders too.

Due to handlebar bag and crowded bars I added a little stub to the right fork which allowed me to install a LED headlight.

LED tail light is rechargeable (like the headlight) and attaches to the seat post.

Reprocessed an unused wireless speedometer from my wife's Bike Friday.  Fresh batteries and settings - good to go.  

MEC Randonneur handlebar bag clip in mount moved over from my Bike Friday.  This is a great bag with enough capacity to carry snacks, light jacket, wallet, phone, etc. and easily pops off and converts to a should bag.

Bag not usually this full!

Mirror from my old road bike.

Garibaldi Park Overnighter

August 16, 2019

With a good stretch of weather and nothing scheduled last week I did a quick lightweight overnight hike to Helm Lake in Garibaldi Park.  got an early start and was on the trail by 0645 hrs.  Hiked up the incline pasted the barrier to Taylor Meadows campground where I had a brief rest in the shelter before pushing on to the Helm Lake campground arriving around 1330 hrs.  Only about five other tents there so as very quiet night. 

Up early the next morning for the walk back via Garibaldi Lake.

Some pics...

New pavement since last here

Taylor Meadows and Black Tusk

Cinder Flats and Helm Lake

New footbridge over upper Helm Creek

Helm Lake campground platform and MEC Spark 1 tent

Dinner

Cool night

Marmot

Wild flowers

Mt and Lake Garibaldi

Another new bridge

Cotswold Way - June 2019

After our via Francigena walk ended in Rome Lisa went to Croatia to send a week with an old friend of hers there.  I flew back to Gatwick then trained to the little town of Chipping Campden  in the central UK where I started my seven day, 165 km walk on the Cotswold Way to Bath.

Overall I would recommend this walk.  Not terribly difficult.  Very pretty.  Good accommodation.

Day 1 - Chipping Campden to Broadway 10 km

Spent last night in the Volunteer Inn (B&B with pub) and they also organizeday the baggage transfer.  I decided to opt for this luxury because I was a little tired after the VF where we did carry our full packs and for the CW I had pretty long stretches each day.  Except today because I was unable to get a room in the village of Stanton which is about 20 km down the road so only walking 10 km to Broadway.  This will make the next day a long one. The upside is that Broadway is a larger village with an assortment of shops and cafes to check out.

The full english!

Market hall in Chipping Campden

Official starting point of Cotswold Way

Fans

Tea and Cake break

My digs in Broadway

Day 2 - Broadway to Cleeve Hill 26 km

Stanton

Just cows

Love these giant elms

Golfers mixing it up with sheep on Cleeve Hill

Day 3 - Cleeve Hill to Birdip 23 km

Day 4 - Birdip to King Stanley's 27 km

Roman Villa excavations

Looking down the very steep cheese rolling competition hill

Tea stop at Painswick

Painswick

Sid and Sue from Alaska

Crossing the canal at Stroud

Dinner at King Stanley's Inn

Day 5 - King Stanley to Wotten-Under-Edge 24km

Started off the day blissfully walking into the variant of the CW and getting myself kms and a couple of hours off route.  Retraced and with help from locals managed to get back on track

Looking back toward Stroud whist lost on the commons

Delish pancake

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Wet selfie

Wotten-on-Edge

The Swan - highly recommended

Roast beef and yorkies

Day 6 - Wooten-Under-Edge to Tormarton - 24 km

Trail food

Inside the earthen walls of a massive iron age fort

Day 7 - Tormarton to Bath - 24 km

The day after reaching bath I took the train to London where I met up with Lisa for four days of touristy things.

Cheers!