SoNic ITT

Setting up the Midwest Bikepacking Summit year one is a huge undertaking. There were many aspects that came to me along the way. One of those being setting FKT’s on the two routes, the SoNic and the Tour de Nicolet. Knowing these routes like the back of my hand made planning these attempts the easy

Winter 2023

This winter has been one filled with many adventures, none of them being epic and particularly lengthy on its own, as far as I’m concerned, however I put an emphasis on seeking out more adventure and bigger adventures in each one. It was a winter of micro adventures is how I would put it. And

Monumental Loop

We rolled into Las Cruces plaza on the long downhill from New Mexico State University a little early, around 8:15 on Saturday morning for a 9:00 start and bikepackers were already starting to gather. Some had burritos that they purchased at the farmers market on the plaza and others were chewing on the danger-bread baguette

2022 Tour de Nicolet

The Tour de Nicolet is a bikepacking trip that I organize each year. I send out invitations to a few of my friends and like to keep it to no more than 12 people. Each year I make the route a little different, this year being a loop, each day being about 70 miles in

Building the Serpiente de la Arena Bikepacking Route

The idea of this route was a long time in the making. A couple years ago I discovered he sand roads around Butler Rock and I was recently thinking about those roads with the intention of creating a fatbike specific bikepacking route. The thought of creating a bikepacking route through areas too difficult for tires

Sky Island Odyssey

The Sky Island Odyssey is a bikepacking route masterpiece created by Sarah Swallow. It is in the extremely biodiverse region of the Sonoran desert in the borderlands of southern Arizona that takes you through the Santa Rita Mountains. The route not only transports you through a beautiful, unique and diverse place but also, in stark

2021 Goals

Setting goals for myself is important to me. Without a goal I feel that I don’t have any specific end result to improve myself. It gives me something positive to shoot for and physically keeps me on track, which is especially important for me in the winter months. It really pushes me to create my

The Sayner Fatbike Lake Adventure

The window of opportunity is small for doing a multiple-lake adventure ride. The snow depth must be minimal or it becomes too difficult to ride several lakes efficiently within the short winter daylight hours. The lakes need to have enough ice to safely enter and exit it at random spots, which may be through bogs,

Global Fatbike Day

It’s the first real snow of the season. Forty three miles into my 86 mile route is a three mile section of Marinette County Forest Road 1121. It’s a section full of curvy, hilly gravel forest road, twisting and turning, up the punchy climbs with rewards of bombing down the other side after each climb.

Flambeau Bikepacking Trip

It was on a late May day that I started thinking about how close Chris Schotz’s TTT race route was to Dave Schlawbowske’s Tour de Chequamegon. I also knew that my northern part of the IRONBULL Red Granite Grinder 144 race route made a connection to the southern portion of Chris’s TTT race route. I