Food deserts, no water, huge climbs. We enter Colorado! Day 8-14 on the Great Divide
Day 8 Grants, NM to BLM land (20 miles before Cuba) 100 miles; 4665 ft of gain We slept in! And gosh did we really need it. Leftover taco salad for breakfast and rollout at 7:30 AM; Pat stayed back to have a slower morning. I highly recommend the Lava Hostel as a Warmshowers place to stay. The self check-in, check-out, showers, etc was perfect for anyone on tour. The day was all pavement with pretty speedy rolling hills. In some areas, you could see the road go on forever ex
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We start the Great Divide, northbound! First 7 day report
Pardon the typos, I’m writing this while on tour! Quick flashback to 2022: Uri, Casey, and I dip our wheels in the Pacific Ocean in California and start heading East to the Atlantic. We biked the Southern Tier route in ~53 days (Uri joined us for the first week). Now, 4 years later and with more experience, we return to bike the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route! The three of us met at the El Paso airport at 11 AM, dragging our bulky bike boxes outside where a Warmshowers host
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Biking from New Mexico to Canada on the GDMBR: Gear Shakedown
Great divide mountain bike ride packing list for Summer 2026!
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On completing big life goals
This wasn’t something I ever planned to do, at least not at first. As a senior in high school, I very actively avoided chemistry and physics. I was going to be an artist, that much I was sure of. But when it came time to apply to college and choose a major, I found myself checking the box for Environmental Science. I didn’t really know what that meant. I just knew that I liked science, and I loved the environment. It felt like a reasonable combination, even if I didn’t yet un
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