L’intérêt continue de croître

"Québec, a renown bikepacking de renom? » C’est ainsi que Maxime Bilodeau commence son article à propos du projet d’itinéraire du Québec Bikepacking Traverse. L’entrevue téléphonique avait eu lieu à la fin-juin, alors que seulement 25% de l’itinéraire était vérifié, mais maintenant, après l’été, 70% de l’itinéraire est confirmé!

Vélo Mag exists since 1981 and is the only francophone cycling magazine in the Americas. The magazine reaches 70,000 readers per publication across the world. It is published by Vélo Québec Éditions.

Lire l’article complet publié sur la version web de Vélo Mag en cliquant ici! 

50% of the QcBT is now verified

Summer is moving along very fast and thanks to collaborators traveling in Quebec this summer, the Québec Bikepacking Traverse itinerary project is more and more developed.

It's with pleasure to announce that segments II and III are now complete!

The segment II links Outaouais and Laurentides regions by Gatineau park, Veloroute des Draveurs, Poisson-Blanc regional park and Papineau-Labelle wildlife reserve. It stretches over 260 kilometres and cumulates 2,675 meters of elevation gain.

The segment III links Mont-Tremblant in the Laurentides all the way to Riviere-a-Pierre, in Quebec region. It goes through Mont-Tremblant national park, Lac-Taureau regional park, Chapeau-de-Paille zec, Saint-Maurice wildlife reserves, Bessonne and Jeannotte zecs and the Portneuf wildlife reserve. It's a journey of 460 kilometres, cumulating 5,000 meters elevation gain.

Those two segments are the closest from Quebec urban centers and it's possible to use the Connectors, which many are still in the planning phase, from Gatineau, Montréal, Trois-Rivières and Québec.

There are now three out of the eight QcBT segments that are verified and fully online. With some portions of other segments already verified, it's now 50% of the total itinerary that is confirmed on the field! Thanks to all who are participating to the elaboration of this project!

All the segment II details

 All the segment III details

It's the first completed segment

Like Star Wars, we don't have to premiere the first episode at the beginning of the saga. In our case, the sixth segment is the first out of the oven.

So welcome in Bas-St-Laurent, on the Southern shore of the St. Lawrence. Here we follow the river counter current, following the Route Verte itinerary, which promises nice discoveries. We then enter the Appalachian on a path created on a former train track.

Segment VI is quite different than the others. It's like a well deserved paused in the middle of Québec Bikepacking Traverse from the forest services road. It's an easier stretch that can give some respite before facing the last 2 segments in the heart of the Appalachians.

Click here for all the infos about this segment!

bikepacking.quebec website is shaping up

Welcome on bikepacking.quebecblog! This website was created for the Québec Bikepacking Traverse project, a 3,100-km itinerary linking Western and Eastern Quebec. The website is online since January 2020 and was slowly built since, being known by few discussion groups of bikepacking enthusiasts. A hosted forum permitted the creation of a start of a community interested in improving the itinerary. More functionalities were added as time passed. A page layout aiming to be practical and attractive was worked on. Today seems like the day to officially launch the platform.

Behind the production

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