John Thoreson survived some tricky moments on his 66-day solo kayak trip from Olympia, Wash. to Haines, but he wasn’t daunted.
The 33-year-old civil engineer shipped home his 16-foot plastic craft about a week ago and hopped on an adapted touring bike to pedal to Inuvik, N.W.T. By the time he makes it back home to Seattle in late September, he figures he will have pedaled 4,400 miles.
That will include Tok, Chicken, Dawson, Jasper,…

