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Bikepacking the San Rafael Swell—Part Two

Day Three We got an early start as the weather had been warming up through the week. Little shade and direct exposure to the sun, even if only in the 80’s, wears on you. Within an hour we had arrived at the Muddy River (again). The water was cold and refreshing, and the mud deep […]

Bikepacking Kokopelli’s Trail: Part 3

Day 3: On to Fisher Valley After two days, we were 79 miles into this ride and had climbed about 8,000 feet over some pretty technical and rough terrain, and we were feeling it. In fact, we all admitted that this was tougher than we anticipated. There was nothing too technical or too difficult about any […]

Bikepacking in Moab

Another nice post on bikepacking on fatbikes in the desert around Moab. With our pathetic Winter here in Northern Utah, I’ve been thinking more and more about heading south and riding in the desert. Last night I went for a ride up on the Alpine Loop above Sundance ski resort. Lots of pavement at the […]

Strawberry Narrows—an S24O trip on fatbikes

I had never spent much time at Strawberry Reservoir, except driving by on several occasions. My impression was not great as all you see from the highway (40) is a big body of water surrounded by a lot of nothing, except sagebrush. Bullet, Doc, and I were pleasantly surprised to find this wonderful place to […]

Mike Curiak’s 2013 Iditatour

Okay, I may be a Mike Curiak fanboy. Here is a series of posts he recently did on his 2013 tour of the Iditarod Trail, which he calls the Iditatour. This series covers the first 350 miles, from Knik to McGrath which is the distance of the shorter race (the longer race going all the […]