Two Butts, One Bike, and Another Great Divide - CycleBlaze

Two Butts, One Bike, and Another Great Divide

By Megan Cvitanovic & Erin Houlihan
2,745 miles (4,418 km) over 181 days since Jul. 31, 2025
Travel Day: Boulder to Canmore heart 20
Where resilience meets privilege and good people heart 42
Happy birthday, Erin! heart 25
We’re off! heart 51
Day 1: Singing in the dark on single track heart 53
Day 2: A bear and our first Continental Divide crossing heart 47
Day 3: Tandem Switchbacks heart 27
Day 4: Into the USA! heart 34
Day 5: A Fall and a Fight heart 35
Day 6: Connections heart 22
Day 7: Glorious lake dip heart 21
Day 8: Switching it up heart 23
Day 9: The Llama Ranch heart 60
Day 10: Feels like camp heart 40
Day 11: Butts and Butte heart 22
Day 12: More kind strangers heart 46
Day 13: The fork stole all our rest days heart 42
Day 14: From the desert to the canyon heart 39
Day 15: Hot and flat and into Idaho! heart 24
Day 16: Into Wyoming! heart 51
Day 17: A two dip kind of day heart 53
Day 18: When a detour leads to heaven heart 41
Day 19: New and Old Friends heart 30
Day 20: Longest day yet! heart 12
Day 21: Just kidding, THIS is our longest day yet! heart 25
Day 22: Significant, Steep Rollers heart 23
Day 23: A soggy crossing into Colorado heart 24
Day 24: Peanut Butter Mud 🥜 heart 36
Day 25: Climb, rain, repeat heart 23
Day 26: To Dinner! heart 39
Day 27: Cackling with friends heart 34
Day 28: Into Salida! heart 16
Day 29: Marshall Pass heart 17
Day 30: Cock-a-doodle-doo heart 24
Day 31: Crossing over our high point…and into a storm! heart 21
Day 32: Second Guess Day heart 21
Day 33: Avoiding mud and eating pastries 🥐 heart 31
Day 34: A bulging tire heart 23
Day 35: Return of our hero heart 27
Day 36: Too tired for a speed bump heart 23
Day 37: A detour to a detour heart 26
Day 38: More pavement to Grants (and beyond!) heart 17
Day 39: *!&# the roads to Pie Town heart 32
Day 40: A mix of emotions heart 30
Day 41: Poppies and the hilly Gila heart 26
Day 42: To Silver City! heart 15
Day 43: Antelopes and Antelope Wells heart 52