RouteDay 0 – (June 15th — MY BIRTHDAY!): 45 miles Jackson to Colter Bay.Camp at Colter Bay, get any additional supplies we need at the CB camp and grocery store. You can find just about anything here. Pack supplies for 3 days, No services until Pinedale. Day 1 – 49.5 miles, 3835 up, 2249 down.From…

Bikepacking the GDMBR requires that you be prepared for everything, because when you’re 100 miles from the nearest town, you won’t find a hotel, you can’t order food delivery, and no is going to fix your bike if something goes wrong. That means you have to carry a lot of gear. So, you have to…

Yeah, it’s cheesy to name your bike, but I’m over 50 and being cheesy just kinda comes with the territory now. I named my bike Ruby. I love the name. If we had a daughter she probably would have been named Ruby, but we didn’t have a daughter, so I named my bike. Ruby is…

It was almost a year ago I began to piece together a bikepacking rig with the dream of taking it out west to the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route. I settled on a Salsa Fargo Ti frame, and the journey began. More on that bike later, but here is a recent photo. Now, I’m a…