Uni Tours?

Erin said:

*No upcoming uni tours show up on the Uni Tour website. Anyone know
of any uni tours being planned? *

In terms of Big tours like the NUT, I haven't heard of anything although
there was a thread a while back (Nathan will hopefully chime in as I
couldn't find it) on where the next one should be. The vets were leaning
toward some pretty exotic locales.

In terms of Less Big tours, in the absence of anything planned, maybe we
should create one! The Seattle 36-ers have been bouncing around some
ideas in our usual half-hearted way. One, which I'm interested in,
would be a 2 or 3 day, semi-supported tour traversing the Iron Horse
trail end-to-end. There's more info at the link below, but it's
basically 110 miles of converted railroad grade that passes through a
whole bunch of different climates and altitudes. The final
(western-most) 24 miles of it are spectacular, starting with a 2.5 mile
DARK railroad tunnel, then winding down the canyon through rich forest,
over several high trestles, and ending at Rattlesnake Lake near North
Bend.

Here's info on the full trail: http://tinyurl.com/2vloh

We've ridden this last section several times. The link below goes to
some shots of the trail in my gallery, and there is another one in there
also from a ride a couple months earlier. That last section of trail is
a fairly comfortable half-day ride, and we’ve been talking about doing
it up and back down with some extra thrown in to make it a metric
century. If y’all can make it down here for some weekend this summer,
we could tour the Iron Horse one day, go ride some muni the other.
http://gallery.unicyclist.com/albuw46

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I believe the next uni tour is going to be in Switzerland.
Mountains, and climbing, and yodeling, oh my!

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I believe the next uni tour is going to be in Switzerland.
Mountains, and climbing, and yodeling, oh my!

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I'm going to organise a unitour through Asia (probably Laos or Vietnam)
either Dec/Jan 2005 or else somewhere mid-2005.

Anyone interested?

Ken

'Unicycling through Vietnam/Cambodia Photos'
(http://gallery.unicyclist.com/albuv31)

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john_childs said:

*I believe the next uni tour is going to be in Switzerland.
Mountains, and climbing, and yodeling, oh my! *

Any idea of the time of year that this tour is planned for, John?

thanks

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Erin said:

*Any idea of the time of year that this tour is planned for, John?

thanks *

No idea.
You could contact Andy Cotter to find out more. His email address is on
the 'Unicycle Tours' (http://www.unitours.org/) web page.

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Ok, thanks!
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The Alps Unicycle Tour starts next July 25, 2005 near Munich and ends in
Grenoble. Registration isn't open until 9/15/04 and then will probably
only be for previous tour participants. If we don't fill it with
previous riders, it will then open for general registration. Each person
who registers will have to pay a $500 deposit in advance, but before
doing so will have to do a 2-day ride, 70+km each day, 400+m climbing,
and report on it.

The tour will be very demanding, probably much harder than previous
ones. It will last around 3 weeks and will include a HUGE amount of
climbing, some at high altitude. It will include the famous 'Alpe
d'Huez' (http://grenoblecycling.free.fr/Col-AlpedHuez.htm) where each
turn is named after a famous Tour de France rider.

Sorry no website, but that's the gist of it so far.

---Nathan

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nathan said:

*The Alps Unicycle Tour starts next July 25, 2005 near Munich and ends
in Grenoble. . Each person who registers will have to pay a $500
deposit in advance, but before doing so will have to do a 2-day ride,
70+km each day, 400+m climbing, and report on it.

---Nathan *

sure local moderate riders like me will be unable to qualify
but at least we may be able to cheer along the road!
(and hope you will evangelize local aboriginal people😉 !)

(mountain) bear

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thread forwarded to the french unicycling forum...
boys (and girls) you're not going to roll without a public to admire
you!

bear

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GizmoDuck said:

*I'm going to organise a unitour through Asia (probably Laos or
Vietnam) either Dec/Jan 2005 or else somewhere mid-2005.

Anyone interested?
*

I'm definitely interested! Sign me up!

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Great Tony!

I'll have to start up a mailing list for all potential interested
riders. A whole different unicycling experience and it'll be definitely
a challenge!

At this stage it will be at least 18 months away still- I am waiting to
see where I'll be working next year and booking my holidays. Keep
Dec/Jan 2005 in mind though.

Thanks,

Ken

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