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donheff
06-14-08, 11:16 AM
My wife and I are thinking about riding the subject rail trail in late August. We want to take a leisurely tour staying at B&Bs with our luggage forwarded on. The Laurentides website (http://www.laurentides.com/parclineaire/1415_an.html) has several packages that look attractive. Has anyone here done this and, if so, do you have any recommendations on who to go with?

stapfam
06-14-08, 11:50 AM
My wife and I are thinking about riding the subject rail trail in late August. We want to take a leisurely tour staying at B&Bs with our luggage forwarded on. The Laurentides website (http://www.laurentides.com/parclineaire/1415_an.html) has several packages that look attractive. Has anyone here done this and, if so, do you have any recommendations on who to go with?

Never done anything like this as I prefer to stay in one place and work out from there.

Saying that- it sounds OK but August can be a bit wet. Thunderstorms can erupt anytime. That is why the French go South for August. But trying to book anything in the South of France may be a bit of a problem for this year. The french have already booked it.-Along with the lucky Germans- Belgians and most of Eastern Europe.
donheff
06-14-08, 12:02 PM
Never done anything like this as I prefer to stay in one place and work out from there.

Saying that- it sounds OK but August can be a bit wet. Thunderstorms can erupt anytime. That is why the French go South for August. But trying to book anything in the South of France may be a bit of a problem for this year. The french have already booked it.-Along with the lucky Germans- Belgians and most of Eastern Europe.
This one is in French Canada - the Laurentian mountains. I found another thread that Dendawg posted a while back.

dendawg
06-14-08, 12:04 PM
We did it last July (2nd week) and used the following operator

http://www.tremblantonwego.com/cycloberge/cycloberge-A.pdf

You'll find different packages available from the various B&B's on the list.
We did the trip on our road bikes with 25cm tires ,and had no problem on the crushed gravel portion, even riding through a deluge one day. We had only 2 regrets. Not spending an extra day at each B&B to explore the areas, and not having local maps to ride the actual roads as the trail gets kind of boring after awhile.