Category Archives: BikeHike Adventures

A Story of Solo Travel with BikeHike

Six years ago, Carole contacted us looking for a solo adventure in South America. We booked her on a group departure through Chile & Argentina with a couple of like-minded adventurers.

This summer, we met Carole in-person for the first time when she stopped by our office in Vancouver BC. She was on her way over to Smithers BC to visit Paula and Brett, who she had met on that South American BikeHike adventure and had continued to keep in touch with. It was such a nice surprise!

BikeHike Exclusive Arc’teryx Giveaway!

We have some pretty darn great giveaways in our monthly newsletters, but this one is my personal favourite since it’s for ANY Arc’teryx product of your choice! Click HERE for details.

New Job Opening at BikeHike Adventures

BikeHike Adventures is looking for a Marketing, Communications, and PR Assistant. Apply before August 15, 2010 deadline.

BikeHike Makes Much Better Adventures

We were surfing the Twitter waves a few weeks ago and noticed that some of the tweeps in our sustainable travel stream were talking about this new online directory: Much Better Adventures. “Hey” we thought “We’re sustainable, we provide sustainable adventures, and we think we’re much better than some companies at being sustainable. So why [...]

BikeHike Adventures Nominated for World Travel Award 2010

We’ve got exciting news folks: BikeHike Adventures has been nominated for a World Travel Award in the category ‘North America’s Leading Tour Operator 2010′! There are nine nominees in this category and as much as we love Mickey Mouse, we don’t want Adventures by Disney to win again. So help us out and click HERE [...]

The 3 Rs of Being Green

In grade school you were probably taught that the 3 R’s are Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. At BikeHike, we like to venture off the beaten track. So, we made up our own 3 R’s: Read When purchasing goods and services, make sure you read the fine print. Is the packaging recyclable? Does the company do [...]

Mittens!! Mittens!! Who Wants Mittens?

Olympic fever is still going strong and The Bay’s online store has already sold out of those red Olympic mittens! Want a pair? BikeHike is giving away six pairs of Olympic mitts from now until the end of the games. All you have to do to enter is either: Become a BikeHike Facebook Fan Follow [...]

News: Travel with Trish

In a world where more and more customer service lines are operated by automated pre-recorded responses, it’s hard to fathom the idea that the owner and founder of a well-established travel company would take the time to personally take your phone call and guide you on your escape from the rat race. But, that’s exactly [...]

Posting Pictures on Facebook

Ahoy Adventurists! We received an e-mail this morning from one of our fabulous clients asking how to upload photos onto our Facebook Fan page. I logged onto my Facebook account and found that the ‘upload photo’ option definitely isn’t obvious. I think a lot of people don’t upload their travel pictures because of this, so [...]

Help Haiti

Everyone’s heard about the massive earthquake in Haiti last night. It’s a tragedy that this has happened to a country that has already struggled for so long as the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. If you want to help Haiti’s people, there are dozens of organizations that are accepting monetary donations on the country’s [...]