So you think you've cracked the camp shoe problem. You've tried them all: slides, crocs, Bolivian house slippers, Tevas, etc. Each has a flaw: too much velcro, not enough stability, being Crocs, too in-home residential specific. And then you find Lunas, and Lunas have it all: no velcro to get snagged, gobs of stability, not Crocs, and they're made for the outdoors. This is something to get really excited about, and I know you are, you are really excited. But then again you haven't tried these babies on, in-situ. You get yourself out to the middle of Canada and your feet are numb from being cold and wet. You put on socks, maybe you put on two layers of socks. One thing about feet is that when they're numb, they don't un-numb immediately. So you have numb feet in two pairs of socks and you jam them into your Lunas. But Lunas require ninja socks, the split toe jobs, and your socks are not ninja. So your numb toes, your double socks, and your sandals have to make a compromise, and what they compromise on is comfort. And you thought this camp shoe solution was a shoe-in. The search continues.
Gear Tanning Time.
Why so sad?
Solar sail! Gets me thinking about Carl Sagan, the pale blue dot, and the enormous scale of it all.
The road wasn't a river of dog s^*t, but it had that consistency. And when a road has the consistency of a river of dog s^*t you try really hard to stay out of it.
Us: "Hey, this water looks neat, let's drink it." The water: "Hey, I just floated through 300 yards of mining chemicals and mineral extraction refuse."
Kyle: "Hey Erik, how does your water taste?" Erik: "Hmm, like a computer fire."
Sometimes you just have to trick it, ya know?
The Alpine Tundra Zone has a cool, short growing season. Mixed with high elevation, its rocky geography limits plant growth.
Just a couple pals in a glacial meadow below a snow-capped peak. Contact holler@yonderjournal.com for our full catalog of inspirational posters, cards, and computer desktop options.
The 2015 Fat Bike Powder 8 World Championships was off the chain!
A breathtaking view of a grizzly bear picnic ground. Speaking of which, has anyone seen The Running Man?
“Hey Boo Boo, let’s go get us a pic-a-nic basket.”
Daniel wanted to camp here, where we are standing, because at this time, on this day, in this spot, the light was UN-REAL. Like someone put a golden filter in the sky, and turns out the image value for any picture in this light goes up a hundredfold. A Buick becomes a Corvette. A squash becomes an apple. A Wednesday becomes a Friday. So yeah, it was good, but the rest of us wanted to get over there, that spot where we are pointing at because on the map it showed a little camp icon. When we got there it was dark, and so was Daniel's disposition.
A little saw, a little fire, and big, big excitement.
About Dead Reckoning In order to evolve into the thinking, building, producing, consuming, ordering, planning, texting creatures we are today, sometimes we needed to pioneer a mountain. Complex culture depends on the exchange of everything, exchange depends on established connections, established connections depend on travel and movement, but there are always barriers. Mountains being one of the most impressive and iconic of the barrier class. They are fearsome and hazardous, and to tempt their transit can invite dire consequences, but as humans it is in our nature to cross mountains, we are driven to push boundaries, make discoveries, know the unknowable. We’re a risky lot, but any pioneer will tell you there is always something good on the other side of a mountain.
In 2015, Yonder Journal investigated, documented and published the possibilities of Over - Mountain exploration. We call this project Dead Reckoning. We applied the technologies and methodologies of adventure cycling, bike-packing, and ultra-lightweight-touring to multi-day-style expeditions with a focus on crossing mountains using a variety of both ancient and modern trade routes.
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If I had this wilderness I would also have a fat bike...
...then I would work on having the perfect hair style of the guy in the ray bans cause you never know when on a muddy bike packing haul you'll finally run into the swedish bikini team...
gotta be ready
nice trip guys
So much hate its just sad. Eric (the guy in all black and tattoos) is a full time badass, he's done a bunch of trips and long distance, self sufficient races around europe and the States. He's faster than you, deal with it. And for the fatbikes...this what they are for, to do stupid fun and slow rides through whatever. Man people are such a*sholes, we all ride bikes. Isn't that the point?
Riding bikes is the point, pretentious dribble about a ride that gets done several times a year but making it sound like you landed on the moon is pure bullshit. we went for a really slow ride, we had fun. end of story.
as for your other statement, maybe, maybe not, its a big pool out there. some of us haters live in a place where rides of this scale are done on a semi regular basis, with out the self congratulatory arm waving and epic bloggyness. most of us are humble enough to know that we are not fast, because we all know people who are actually fast.
Day 1 Sky Camp-Taseko River-Battlement Creek camped near Taylor Windfall mine. Day 2 Battlement-Iron Pass-Bushwhacked Grant Creek-Big Creek turned North on Big Creek heading For Graveyard Creek. Probably heading SE into Graveyard Valley. Then more hike a bike!
Looks like they brong a lot of weed for that trip. Tons of photos eating and bikes in the ground. This second parts has better photos than the first one. Looks like they are using adults push bike everytime pushing.. With that cold and snow I would never do a bike trip I have hot blood
Cool a Fat tire adventure. Nice pics . You didnt bring a water purifier? I got one from london drugs. 20 bucks. purifies 99.9% of particulate matter. If a bear took a dump up stream you would be in big trouble from nasty bacteria. Water from a tailings pond or mining waste is very poisonous! Hope your kidding when you say you drank that water none filtered.
This looks like 3 guys who bought 3 fat bikes, then tried to justify their purchase(s) by attempting to ride them in the 'local' snow, which looks to have been a LOT of time spent pushing the heavy beasts up into the snow line, only to find it didn't work out that well so they ended up with not a lot of riding in the snow, but even more time pushing the heavy beasts back down.
Well the guy clearly has a point. In Europe and sometimes the USA there are in fact races where they ride down way rougher terrain against the clock and nobody runs tyres over 2.5 inch..
I understand it's not the most effective bike on where they ride, but these guys don't seem like they are out to break new Strava records, but rather to have a good time and discover parts of the world (by bike) they haven't seen yet. And enjoying every second of it. Therefor, if a fatbike gives these guys the biggest smile on their faces, they should ride fatbikes.
My guess is they are mostly journalists or bike shop guys who were able to get screaming deals on the fat bikes, but they've also got killer XC race machines, gravel bikes, and AM bikes at home. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but for the average consumer a 3.25" equipped Plus bike will offer 80% of the ride quality of a fat bike without utilizing a wider BB or hubs, be tremendously lighter, and aside from soft sand or powdery snow, go the same places. I relate fat bikes to road bikes, both are great if you're riding their intended surface for long period of times, and I don't like riding soft snow or sand or paved roads for long distances so I don't own either.
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Eric (the guy in all black and tattoos) is a full time badass, he's done a bunch of trips and long distance, self sufficient races around europe and the States. He's faster than you, deal with it.
And for the fatbikes...this what they are for, to do stupid fun and slow rides through whatever.
Man people are such a*sholes, we all ride bikes. Isn't that the point?
. You didnt bring a water purifier? I got one from london drugs. 20 bucks. purifies 99.9% of particulate matter. If a bear took a dump up stream you would be in big trouble from nasty bacteria.
Water from a tailings pond or mining waste is very poisonous! Hope your kidding when you say you drank that water none filtered.
Ref.: www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/misc/bears/bearsaf.html
beautiful mountains !!!
All joking aside, looks like a super fun trip and I enjoyed reading the article
Why should anyone care what other people ride? As long as they enjoy riding it
Therefor, if a fatbike gives these guys the biggest smile on their faces, they should ride fatbikes.
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