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After brunch on day one,
we have a short day's ride to our first campground. There's not much
climbing on this day and riders can take a side trip to the Gaelic
College just outside of Baddeck. Riders dropped in this year and
were able to catch a Gaelic language lesson in progress and hear a student
piper. Bag piping is experiencing a renaissance in Cape Breton. This
revival has encouraged popular song performers to incorporate the pipes
into their works.
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On day two we ride over
what riders judged to be the most challenging climb of the trip, Smokey
Mountain. It's six kilometres to the summit and once there you are greeted
with a spectacular view and an equally spectacular descent. We then
head over some steady hills through to Ingonish, a side trip to Neils
Harbour and onto Dingwall where we are rewarded with a day off.
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