Profile and Route
Please note that the below information and route are for general information purposes.
Route changes and checkpoints will be added at a later date.
Granite Anvil 1200 Map (Red line depicts Route):
Granite Anvil 1200 Route:
Stage 1:
Although this first leg of your journey is fairly flat, it won't go as fast
as you think it should. We promise to slow you down with winds strong
enough to justify the many wind generators you'll pass.
Once you leave the city, you'll begin riding north and climbing
up and over the Oak Ridges Moraine. The Moraine is left over from the
last ice age and is kept as a green belt around the greater Toronto area.
At 85 km you will climb over the Niagara Escarpment, a UNESCO World
Biosphere Reserve. Then at 220kms, north again, dipping into the Beaver
Valley, with a lovely little 10 km run down. But what goes
down........
Your day will end riding along the many beaches of Georgian Bay to Victoria
Harbour and a sleep stop at 370 km.
Stage 2:
Today, it's over the Canadian Shield by the Big
Chute Marine Railway, and onward and upward to Bancroft for your second sleep
control. Big
Chute is an unique form of a lock; in this case the water craft are lifted from
one lake to another lake with a cradle running along a rail road. Continuing on,
the route leads us into the most northern tip of Lake
Couchiching and Coopers Falls. The route goes to another form of lock; the Lift Locks at Kirkfield. From
here towards Fenelon Falls (there is a regular lock in this place) before
turning north and east to Kinmount, Iron Dale, Gooderham and Wilberforce, and
finally south to Bancroft.
Stage 3:
On the third day, the route leads us along
roads in the Canadian Shield. The terrain is rugged with rocky outcrops and
many lakes and relentless climbs.
Stage 4:
On the final leg, you will cover the
least amount of distance, but there are significant elevation changes. The
terrain is definitely rolling; the approach to Toronto from Bewdley is the
Glutebuster route. We diverge from this route near Toronto and go south towards
the Lake by Whitevale.
Overall Granite Anvil profile
Total elevation gain was around the 28000 to 29000 feet. There are some flat sections, if you aren't going up, you'll be going down down. The total “up” obviously matches the “downs”.
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