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CDTBike Photos – Lincoln to Fin
From Lincoln, the official CDT is done, but there are still miles to ride. On to the Great Divide Mountain Bike route, with a huge sign of relief and excitement at some straightforward miles. It’s not...
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Rest and Recovery
Even when you can’t do that much, you can still do some cool things. Looking back at my photos from the last ~month of ‘rest and recovery’ it sure seems like we’ve gotten out a lot. But there haven’t...
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Advice to future CDTers
I have a few thoughts to get down that may be useful to future CDT riders. As always, take advice you find on the internet with a grain of salt! ] Go light. The CDT is not a bike trail. But you should...
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November Re-training
Some call November the off-season. Some might think after 26 days of moving time over the summer, we’d be looking for some significant down time. Life is too short for an off-season. For me, November...
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What’s an interesting adventure?
What’s an interesting adventure? It’s a question I’ve been repeatedly asking myself since finishing the Continental Divide Trail. What do I find interesting, what’s next? For a while, not much was...
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Run vs Ride: In Hot Water
photo by Jonathan Buchanan Agua Caliente sits maybe 3000 feet above Tucson, a prominent high-point between the Catalina and Rincon Mountains. The trail to the top is only 4.5 miles long, so it’s...
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Back to December
Many blogs are dead these days, but mine is not one of them. As of… right now. I think it was mostly a case of over-sharing. The CDT was a long trip, and one we documented well. I took thousands of...
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Pinacate Fat-biking
We had grand plans for a bikepack around the Sierra Pinacate, a large collection of volcanic peaks and cinder cones just across the border from the Camino Diablo, in Mexico. Chad had previously...
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Into 2015
Every year I try to ask TopoFusion how much I’ve ridden, based on whatever GPX I’ve collected. Sometimes it doesn’t happen for a few months into the next year. What can I say? I’ve been collecting data...
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March in the desert
I’m still playing the blog catchup game. I must reluctantly admit that the focus of March was not getting outside and riding. It was sitting at the computer managing my fledgling world of websites and...
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Wrapping up Tucson for the winter
Hey, I’m into April… almost getting caught up on the blog before the next big adventure. March was incredibly hectic, and in the back of my mind was the opportunity to go race the Holyland Challenge in...
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Heading north… Utah
With our lives packed into our cars and a little shed that leaks, it was time to head north. Each time I’ve repeated this exercise it makes me wonder why I have so much junk. Junk that I am happy to...
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A trip with no plan
We smiled as we headed northwest, to Washington and Oregon. The skies were clearing as we left behind the rainy desert southwest. We smiled at the irony. We smiled at being on the road, with unknown...
View ArticleHot Sisters Hot Spring Loop – Day 0
Day 0. Hot spring count: 0. We are in Oregon, and (car) camping at hot spring #0. Tomorrow we finally load up the bikes and head out for a good bikepack. The original plan was to thru-ride the Pacific...
View ArticleDay 1 – That feeling of hitting dirt
Tires roll onto soft dirt and pumice. Almost instantly we relax, the trip has finally begun. I think Eszter said it best, “sometimes the first mile is the hardest.” Or, getting to the first mile,...
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Day 2 – We got wet
Hot spring count – 1 Mountains climbed – 0 Well, after all the talk and excitement about the little tent we are carrying, we find ourselves indoors tonight, and quite happy about it. Last night in the...
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Day 3 – Springs, peaks and more rain
Hot spring count – 2 Mountains climbed – 1 The tent works. I’m typing this to the sounds of rain drops on the fly, and all of said drops are being directed away from us. This is at least the 3rd storm...
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Day 4 – Boatloads of good trail
We rode a boatload of good trail today. That’s the summary. It rained hard last night, and we awoke to fog. A few miles up our climb a pickup pulled over and asked us for directions. As they left I...
View ArticleDay 5 – Is it resupply yet?
We’re running thin on food, but that’s pretty normal for us . This section is the crux of the route, as far as carrying food goes. Of course it would have been a lot more manageable without our...
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Hot Sisters Day 6 – A burger to end 3 nights of hunger
Hot springs – 3 Mountains – 3 Lookouts – 1 We made it to Lemolo Lake and the wonderful lodge that is here. That lodge serves up big burgers with the best bacon on the planet (they tried a half dozen...
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