Just a heads up that Will and John made it across the state and back to complete the route on schedule in 8 days. They have provided some route update suggestions that we will incorporate and they are planning to write a full trip report. We will post updated links to both soon. Here is their Spot Tracker trace if you are interested (their battery died so the last 50 miles or so are not recorded unfortunately. As FYI, the route will be available to all, and because the north and south routes are so close together it makes it easy to create shorter routes by cutting across from one route to the other to make basically any distance you have time to cover. For example, if you wanted a 400 mile route you could start in Emporium, ride east ~80 miles, cross over to the northern route, ride west ~180 miles, cross back to the south route and ride back to Emporium for a loop that is about 400 miles long. Overall, the route is about 75 - 80% gravel roads.
