Jenn Hamelman: Charting the Course for the Adventure Cycling Association
What sort of adventures does someone who is in charge of putting cycle routes on the map take? Well in this episode I had the absolute pleasure of speaking with Jenn Hammelman, Director of Routes at the Adventure Cycling Association where she has been working as a cartographer for over 25 years now. We chatted about what it has been like to chart a course for people to undertake their own adventures across the USA, and what goes into creating new routes.
For people planning out bicycle adventures in the US, the Adventure Cycling Association is naturally their first port of call. Not only have they created a network of over 52,000miles, 83000kms of routes to choose from, the Adventure Cycling Association also has a large amount of information available to help people get on their bikes and explore. To that end, Jenn has also done her fair share of exploring too and in 2017 she took a trip from Portland Maine to Seattle, Washington - the long way - cycling along routes which she worked on for years.
Check out more about the Adventure Cycling Association via their website
You can also discover Jenn's journal of her trip
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