Category: bikepacking
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Tour Divide: Part 2, Cost and Food
Continued from yesterday. Part 1 Cost I saved about two grand for the race including travel costs, and it wasn’t enough. But after graduating, moving to Colorado, and barely making rent all winter, it was the best I could scrape…
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Some More Thoughts on the Tour Divide: Part 1
I’ve mentioned this before, but damn, what a hard race. It’s not that it’s technically difficult- if you can ride down a bike path you’ve pretty much got the necessary handling skills dialed in. It’s just so long. 2750 miles…
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Up in the Desert
I’d been looking at this spot on the map for a while- it’s kinda far back, so an overnight seemed like it’d be the best way to get there. Matt (also a recent Carbondale transplant, from Leadville by way of…
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Tour Divide
Also on the Dirt Rag I haven’t been able to sleep- every night I wake up, thinking that I still have more miles to ride to the border. “No, Colleen already picked you up, it’s over,” I tell myself. Then…
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Great Divide Pack List
The stuff. When it’s all laid out, it doesn’t look like much for a few weeks of living off the bike. But when I’m pushing it up a moutain road, it feels like a ton. All the bags were made…
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Kokpelli’s Trail
Sweep, back flush the espresso machine, mop, last dishes, count the drawer. Lock the door to the café by six. Grocery store with Colleen. “How much food do you need to take?” “I think around 4000 calories’ll get me to…
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Thompson Divide
I loaded up my Pigsley with camping stuff (in some really nice Oveja Negra bags that I'm testing for the Dirt Rag) rolled out the door, and headed towards the Thompson Divide. 15 miles of dirt and pavement, then onto…
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Tour Divide
I’m in for the biggest of the bike races: Tour Divide Start List I’ve been thinking about trying this thing for a few years, but my trying never really got beyond thinking. Between college, work, and all the other races I…
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Davis to Ohiopyle: Part 2
Back to Part 1 I ride out of Thomas and up the windy road a few miles to Davis. The elevated sidewalks are pretty empty for a Saturday afternoon. I roll past the Shop n’ Save on the edge of…
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Ohiopyle to Davis: Part 1
Birdley the Birdman of Charleston and I were supposed to go to Cross Country Nationals this weekend. On Tuesday, Birdley was riding real fast down a rocky hill in the forest outside of his nest. Then he woke up on…
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