Bike Touring Colombia – Santa Rosa de Cabal to Ibague
Climbing. The grade is steep, but the road is paved. The air is warm and humid, and I ride with my shirt off. The opaque sheen of heavy rain looms in the Cocora valley...
Brian's Routes Blog
Bike Touring Colombia – Medellin to Nevado Del Ruiz
Traffic is suddenly coming to a stop. A man is walking across two lanes of traffic, lifting up the midriff of his blue shirt, revealing his chiseled six pack. Although cars don’t usually stop...
Bike Touring Colombia – Bogota to Cocuy National Park
Thwack!..Thwack!………Thwack! The handful of rocks I had just thrown scatter-gun style had just hit their squishy target. Satisfaction surged through my body – like that feeling you get when you pop that annoying pimple...
Bike Touring South America
This page is the hub that links to sub posts for our bicycle trip from Bogota, Colombia to Cuzco, Peru. Blue colored track represents non-bike travel (such as bus or boat). Yellow represents air...
Little Sur River Fastpack Exploration
Just North of Point Sur, underneath a sweeping bend in highway 1, the Little Sur River dumps into the ocean. This river makes it’s beginning on the North flanks of Ventana Double Cone and...
John Muir Trail
Although light, the snow had been falling for hours. Janet and I were trudging up the first of two 12,000′ passes in knee deep powder and white-out conditions – no sign of a trail....
Roper’s Sierra High Route
Unlike most of my posts, which are more like tour-guide descriptions, this post aims to detail my personal experiences on the route. If you are looking for more of a tour guide, check the...
Tahoe Lake Aloha Rim Loop
Studying the map, I often find dead-end trails that seem like they were meant to form part of a loop. In an effort to connect the missing pieces of a dead-end trail in Desolation...
