For a cause and for adventure, Bike MS riders tour west central Minnesota

For a cause and for adventure, Bike MS riders tour west central Minnesota

GRANITE FALLS — On the very shores of the Minnesota River where Eric Sevareid and Walter Port erected a lonesome tent in 1930, dozens of bicyclists pitched their own modern, colorful tents in Rice Park in Granite Falls on Monday. Sevareid and Port were bound for the arctic waters of Hudson Bay by canoe, a 2,200-mile adventure made famous by Sevareid’s classic account, “Canoeing with the Cree.” The bicyclists left Tuesday, July 22, to make their …