Category: bikepacking
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Loreto to Agua Verde to Loreto
— Ok, I think I’ll be good now. I stand up slow, covered in spiky grass seed. I’ve had four very loose stools (to use the clinical term) in the last eight miles. The delicious eggs we ate at that…
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Mulege to Loreto
Can’t pass up the Lava Pies for reakfabst. — We’re at an RV park that’s mostly full of retired Canadians. It’s real cheap, the view is good, and the shower is nice. I’m on the beach, trying to clean the…
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Bahia Los Angeles to Mulege
“Should we check the place?” I say. The sign for the rancho is snapped in half, the painted letters flaking like they haven’t been retouched in a decade. “I don’t know, it really looks like there’s not anything there.” Cervaza…
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Camino Diablo to Bahia Los Angeles
“Stop here. Here, come up here. To the line. What is your business in Mexico, and where are you going?” says the border guard. He frowns and crosses his arms. I push my bike into Los Algodones, totally overwhelmed. The…
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Phoenix to Ajo
An A-10 pulls out of a strafing run, jet engines echo off the mountains. It takes a couple seconds for the sound from the gun to get to us. And at 3,900 rounds a minute, it sounds more like a zipper,…
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Black Canyon Trail
I sit up, and brush my face on ice-crusted nylon. Geez. I thought Sedona was supposed to be warm. “Colleen, stop breathing so heavy. You’re making it snow inside the tent.” “I’m not breathing heavy! You sleep with your mouth…
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Mostly Not Kokopelli’s Trail (again)
I wake up, roll over on the slick rock. Thought I saw a camera flash. No, probably wasn’t anything. Back to sleep. Then another one. Headlights from one of those stupid side-by-sides? A rumble. Lightning. I roll over to look…
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Colorado Trail Race
Link to all the photos: Colorado Trail Race Like all the really long races I’ve tried, the CTR made me feel about as good as a stick of butter that was dropped in the dirt on a hot day, then…
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Road Gulch
I’ve just started to realize how many sweet, hardly-used trails are around here. They’re not groomed, IMBA spec bulldozer wide, or properly drained. So they’re pretty much perfect. I’m trying to get out and ride as many of them as…
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Backcountry Cruising
After everybody got their underpants in a bunch over the low snowpack in April, a ton of rain in May took things right back to where they should have been. No shortage of water right now, although Matt contaminated everything…
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