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  • Yellowstone Park Trip

    Last Sunday we hit up the park for national parks day or more importantly free entrance day. We picked Tower Falls, closed to cars, to ride our bikes. We need to come back when they open the Dunraven Pass Road to bikes or the day before they open it to cars. Would be a sick…

  • A Saturday Ride

    Most of the morning was spent trying to figure out what to do. Can not go up due to the new snow we just got. I am sick of snow. Lower trails are too muddy. We did not want to get in the car … in Bozeman there are no trails from town like in…

  • Keeping It Simple – One Bike

    As I approached the bridge I stopped to take a photo of two geese. Then it struck me how life can become more enhanced. Everyone knows to simplify. Don’t over-plan adventure. Team up to accomplish more … to experience more, and enhance it all with sharing. The less you have the more you can interface…

  • Frame Bag Caveat

    “Is that an electric bike”? “No” “But he is riding so fast” “He is strong” “But …” “Listen it is storage. I mean the dude has a 12 pack of carbonated water and other groceries on board. It’s called a frame bag.” Upon learning of this conversation I decided to take my frame bags off.…

  • Fat Bike Calf Creek

    And just like that! Our weekend at Calf Creek is over. Sure we had a little fun in store, fat biking out. And then it happened. On my first day of my second lap of 50. I spotted a wolf. That is a good sign right?

  • Two Worlds

    After a coffee I can not contain my ambitions so I go for a ride. To just be doing something. Take some photos, explore places I have not set tire, and return for a second cup when my partner wakes. I guess in her world we have coffee together in the morning. Our first cup.…

  • 50th Birthday Party

    While my sister reminisced and summed up our childhood on Facebook … Today is my brother’s birthday! But he’s not just my brother, he’s also my friend! I was the youngest and the brat of our entire relationship! He was my superhero when we had a bully on the block. I was his irritating little…

  • FatPacking To Calf Creek

    Mo set this up. Paid for the cabin and suggested we FatPack another weekend in a row. As long as I didn’t hit my head again … I wore a helmet. I suspected it was because my birthday is tomorrow. She knows my favorite thing to do is adventure. And no questions asked about her, or…

  • Little Bear Cabin Fatpacking

    When the lights came on all I could think of was to get up and try to act normal so that if Mo was looking out of the window she would not be alarmed to see me sprawled out in front of the woodshed like I had been shot. So I did get to my feet…

  • FatPacking to Little Bear Cabin

    I was a little unsettled before we arrived at the parking area because Bozeman had survived 3 major snowfalls since we were there last. We had done a scout trip on a Wednesday Night Adventure. And even then going was tough due to the lack of snow machine traffic. Heavy powder is tough to push through…

  • WNA 36 Rollin Fatties on Moser

    We were late for the meet up in Hyalite Canyon. We explained to zero attendees that we got hung up on miscommunications and the fact that we ran out of gas as well. In any case we jolted up the hill and too outran all tracks from previous users. The sliders and the doggers. No signs…

  • Around the corner

    Every time the sun comes out, it hints at something bigger than that one blissful moment. As I write, the snow is falling outside, so I must go off what I remembered from this past weekend. And as I start to go over that moment and what made it so great, I remember that feeling…

  • WNA 35 Rollin Fatties @ Jackson Creek

    Last night, amidst the remnants of a pesky cold, I decided to brave it all and embark on an ambitious fat bike ride in the evening, accompanied by our “massive” group of… wait for it… two. It initially felt like a simple quest for fresh air, but boy, did it morph into a bona fide…

  • Down to 2

    I now have two bikes, a fattie and a cross bike. The two extremes, fat and skinny. Like me … right? RIP Gonzo and RIP Askia. Gone are my old cross bike and sadly the El Mariachi is also retired. New is a cobbled* together gravel grinder. Well not gone but for sale. Selling my cross…

  • Watching and waiting

    We have friends over and I am recovering from a vitamin C burn in my chest so I sit at the computer with a hint of wanting to go for a ride to enjoy the sunrise. Speaking of sunrises my friend Jill and I share sunrise moments even across the miles due to a magical…

  • The Drive Against 40

    This is Lammy’s fifth year visiting the Tetons. With his help we were able to launch a major blow to the 40 hour work week. This week I only worked 32 hours.  Last week, the same. Ha! Take that you blood sucking mongrels.

  • WNA 34 Rollin Fatties @ Little Bear

    Last night was the 34th installment of our Wednesday Night Adventure Series. We had the average group size of 2 and getting to the launch site proved to be a little challenging. This time of year unless you want to road ride or mountain bike mud slog you need to get yourself high. We attempted…

  • Brooks Lake Lodge

    As I mentioned in a previous post this is our 5th time coming to the Togwotee Winter Classic. Traditionally we have just rushed back to work the morning after the race. 3 days and two nights max. We always wished that we could do this one ride up to Brooks Lake Lodge. So this year…