|Gdynia| - [Tallinn]

A ride that starts in Gdynia and ends in Tallinn.

We will take the train from Copenhagen to Karlskrona and take the ferry from Karlskrona to Gdynia.

100-120km average per day. Camp/Sleep how you want.

72 hour visum is needed to cross the Russian enclave Kaliningrad.

Some of us might join the last days of the I LAND SOUND festival in Estonia http://ilandsound.ee/

Simple draft of the route - has not been worked through https://ridewithgps.com/routes/26695433

Fixed?

No rules

in if it involves singletrack, doubletrack, and as little paving as humanly possible

But you will, right? You cray-cray.

Don’t know anything about the trail conditions in that area but it would very cool to do Helsinki-st Petersburg-Tallinn. You could take a ferry back to Helsinki too.

I'm a proud walker when I ran out of gear

Interested & subscribed sounds like an adventure!

+1 for 'as little paving as humanly possible'

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Status: Flying with bike to Murmansk and head west towards Finland along the Murmansk river. 2 degrees north of the polar circle, which means the sun stays on sky during the night.

I am trying to contact bike-wizards in Murmansk through the warmshowers.org network, to hear more about the R11 state-way bikefriendlyness and the mosquito situation in July. Degrees should be around 16-17 degrees during daytime, but with 9 days of rain on average.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/26688019

I spend a lot of time in Finnish Lapland (my wife's family has a house there). Mosquitos in Juky will be bonkers. For hiking you really need a facenet, long trousers (ideally very dense cotton weave) amd thick long sleeved shirts. The first time I went hiking there at the same time of year they were biting me through a synthetic baselayer!

Guess you can outrun them on a bike, but bring nets and stuff for camping. I'd still recommend the trip - amazing scenery and very little traffic. Plus some nice gravel roads in some places.

Looks interesting. The eurovelo 13 hugs the Russian-Finnish border but stays on the Finnish side. One could take it to the bottom of Finland and then head west to Helsinki. Might be a boring ride though.

Thanks for your thoughts @Momentum @mulv

The route has changed a small bit and now features 5 countries on the Baltic coast and around 1200km. Mostly asphalt in the east european condition and some light gravel.

The ride starts in Gdynia and ends in Tallinn.

We will take the train from Copenhagen to Karlskrona and take the ferry from Karlskrona to Gdynia.

100-120km average per day. Camp/Sleep how you want.

72 hour visum is needed to cross the Russian enclave Kaliningrad.

Some of us might join the last days of the I LAND SOUND festival in Estonia http://ilandsound.ee/

Simple draft of the route - has not been worked through https://ridewithgps.com/routes/26695433

I’ve begun the process of applying for the 72 hours visa for entering Russia.

you're hitting Riga a month or so too early http://cmwc2018.com/en/

This sounds fun, I'll think about it

Interesting talk, however I'm not a fan of the mozzies

New route doesn't include them as much afaik

Yeah the original post was a Murmansk route to Finland - the talk about mosquitos made me alter to a non-mozzie route.

Come along for a small taste of iron curtain, Tzars, 1400 AD sail and trade unions.