Bike Touring, Camping, Cycling, GDMBR, Travel

Western Maine & Tim Pond Bikepacking Weekend

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In case you haven’t heard, we are planning another long bike tour next summer.  This time it will be different, though, because the majority of it will be on trails and dirt roads.  To handle the different terrain, we will use different gear – this style of bike touring is referred to as bikepacking.  Due to weddings and other craziness this spring and summer, though, we haven’t had a chance for any practice (“shakeout”) tours until now.

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Wedding

To Hide a Ring

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…on a bicycle for over 5,000 miles. I found these notes from Chris about where he would hide the engagement ring for our summer 2015 bike trip. No wonder he was so careful with his handlebar bag! 😉

He wound up putting it in a little plastic box, wrapping it up in duct tape, and keeping it between the cloth lining and hard plastic of his handlebar bag.

Camping, Hiking, Travel

Glacier Summer Trip

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This past summer, Rachel and I took time off work for a trip to Big Sky country, with the highlight of the trip being 3 days in Glacier National Park.  My siblings, Casey, Charity & Julie joined us, which was particularly exciting because Charity and Julie had never been to Montana.  Also, Casey had never been there besides one trip in the winter and I had never been to Glacier before.  We were excited for lots of first-time experiences!

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Chris + Rachel