1100 unsupported miles across Alaska
February 24th, 2008
Adventure cyclist Mike Curiak asked us here at TopoFusion to help track his latest journey. He already holds the human powered world record for the Iditarod trail. Now he’s going back and trying to ride the whole thing completely unsupported. That means he’s carrying all the food, water, gear and muscle needed to travel all 1,100 miles to Nome.
Racers in the Iditarod Trail Invitational (who travel the trail by bike, foot and ski) have the “luxury” of staying in various lodges and checkpoints along the way. They pick up drop bags, buy food and perhaps most importantly, warm up! But Mike will be forgoing all that, testing the limits of what has been done with human powered winter travel.
He is carrying a findmespot beacon, which (if all goes well) will send a breadcrumb point every 10 minutes. We’ll be able to load these points (Spot’s site exports GPX files) in TopoFusion and view his progress. We’ll also be able to do things like track playback and speed computations.
Head on over to Mike’s blog to get the latest update on his progress, using TopoFusion software: