July 13 – August 17, 2017
Join us for an extraordinary ‘virtual’ adventure beginning July 13th as we embark on an exciting motorcycle tour to the North Pole. Our North Pole Adventure begins in Helsinki, Finland, crosses the Russian border on the way to St. Petersburg, and continues to Murmansk, the launch point for a thrilling 12-day polar cruise. The 50 Years of Victory icebreaker will take us to the North Pole as it crushes through polar ice, and travels through the remote islands of Franz Joseph Land, which we’ll explore by Zodiac and helicopter.
Highlights at the North Pole will include a tethered hot air balloon flight, and a barbeque dinner on the ice! Back on land, we’ll continue by motorcycle and cross the Arctic Circle on our way to the North Cape before heading south through the Norwegian Fjordlands and Lofoten Islands, arguably some of the most beautiful parts of the world for motorcycling. This truly promises to be the “Adventure of a Lifetime!”
Day 1 – North Pole Adventure 2017
Getting ready for the adventure ahead! Everyone has arrived safely in Helsinki, Finland for the start of our 36 day, four country North Pole Adventure! Myself and several of the riders arrived a [...]
Day 2 – North Pole Adventure 2017
And off we go, Russia here we come! We had an absolutely perfect start to the riding of this tour. The weather leaving Helsinki was perfect and other than getting a little cool, [...]
Days 3 & 4 – North Pole Adventure 2017
First full riding day in Russia. The ride from Vyborg, which is a great little city, to St. Petersburg was a fairly short day of only 180 miles. The ride itself was really [...]
Day 5 – North Pole Adventure 2017
North bound... Waking up to the sound of torrential rain beating off the hotel room window was far from what we had hoped to waken up to first thing in the morning. We [...]
Days 6 to 8 – North Pole Adventure 2017
Heading north. Riding north from Sortavala to Murmansk has been easy, enjoyable and really reply as we made our way passed many lakes and through the dense forests of western Russia. The road [...]
Days 9 to 19, Sailing – North Pole Adventure 2017
All aboard and northward bound….. Getting in to Murmansk was a lot easier than we had anticipated. Despite the cold and misty weather the ride was long but easy and more so as [...]
Days 20, 21 – North Pole Adventure 2017
Back on solid terra firma…. An early disembarkation with the bike craned flawlessly off of the boat and on to the pier where the bus waited to take us to our hotel made [...]
Day 22 – North Pole Adventure 2017
Today we started of with a great breakfast of wonderful local cheeses, smoked meats and fresh salmon, I like Norway!! After seeing our first reindeer for the tour, we had to make a [...]
Days 23, 24 – North Pole Adventure 2017
Lakselv to Alta to Tromsø The weather at the North Cape is known to not be very good at the best of times. David, who had been to the North Cape on a [...]
Days 25 – 27 – North Pole Adventure 2017
The Lofoten Islands Leaving Tromsø we were treated to an experience that was new to most of the group - a traffic circle in the middle of a tunnel. Of course one has [...]
Days 28 – 31 – North Pole Adventure 2017
Svolvaer to Bodø to Sandnessjoen to Trondheim A nice relaxing breakfast overlooking the harbour in Svolvaer was the perfect way to start this wonderful day. It was only a short but absolutely stunning [...]
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