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      • Fast forward through the rest of WY and CO - New Mexico! I'm at a Continental Divide crossing (no snow anymore!) holding my pedal that had broken off its spindle. I found some bailing wire on the road, and used it to lash the pedal in place onto the bottom of my shoe. I would then insert the pedal into its spindle that was still attached to the crank whenever I wanted to pedal. My Tour Divide ended soon after this, after I crashed out, due partly to gear destruction; partly to a month of severe physical strain.2011 Tour Divide Photos
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      • Good coffee makes an excellent motivator to get up that hillTraining Journal: 2/6/23 – 2/12/23
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Summit of Tabeguache, as the sun was rising

A Beautiful Nolans 14 Failure

Nolans 14 Scouting: Columbia/Harvard/Oxford/Belford/Missouri/Harvard

Training Journal 8/19/19 – 8/25/19

Nolans 14 Scouting: Shavano/Tabeguache/Antero/Princeton/Yale

Review: Ultimate Direction SCRAM

Training Journal 7/29/19 – 8/4/19

The Never Summer Range from the west side of Trail Ridge Road

Bikepacking Talk + Workshop, September 29th, 2019 @ Golden, CO: Colorado Mountain Feast, American Mountaineering Center

Sangre de Cristo Range Traverse Fastpack Complete Gear List

Crestone Peak from Crestone Needle

Sangre de Cristo Range Traverse Fastpack (Completed!)

Igikpak smiling down on us clear on the other side of its massif. After a bit of riverside hiking, our group made it over a series of mountain passes dubbed "Skinny 'bou", and, "Talus Top". These Anglophone names may clue you into their fairly recent naming - most likely named by Alaska-based adventurer Roman Dial. My comments section should now come alive with, "Oh hey: I know Roman!", as the more I scratch the surface in my research of him, the more I realizse just how many people I know that MUST know him; how many lives he's touched. And for good reason: Roman has done some fun stuff out there, be it mountain biking, packrafting, mountaineering - you name it. Andrew Skurka did these passes with Roman during his 6-month Alaska Yukon Expedition. Always love to hear Andrew tell us a Roman tale, and I hope one day to hear *Roman* tell me a Roman tale, even if it's just in print. Concerning Igikpak (and I'll get this - and all of Roman's stories a little wrong, as happens with oral legends): Roman was on a trip to summit Igikpak and was looking up at the last towering pitch up the highest of the two delicate fingers that make up its summit. After 8,000'+ of climbing from the valley floor, their advancement was haulted: they couldn't climb the last pitch, because no one brought the clutch piece of rock pro for an OW crack: a beefy #6. (If you saw the terrain just to get to the base of a climb like this, I'd leave the #6 home as well.) Another Roman story: when Roman was young (say: 6? 8?) his Father left him a dirt bike and a .22 and told him, "Gotta go to work kid, stay out of trouble!".

Gates of the Arctic National Park Guiding Photos

Arrigetch Creek Basin

Back from the Gates of the Arctic National Park

Backpacking Alaska! My Personal Guiding Gear List

Training Journal 5/27/19 – 6/2/19

2019 Project Dreamin’ Updates

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