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sloths on wheels: November 2014
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From Tromsø to Tokyo.and,er, some other places too. Tuesday, 25 November 2014. And it helps if you have marked on your map a little connecting back country road based on what you think you can see on Google Maps only to find you have wandered down a dead-end lane somewhere in the hills. Then you really are getting off the beaten track. Forestry Police looking for careless campers? Or just a farmer searching for his ornery buffalo? It turns out the hoodoo. Are the spindly rocks. There's something overwhel...
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Peaks and Treks - PIKES ON BIKES
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PIKES ON BIKES Facebook. PIKES ON BIKES Twitter. PIKES ON BIKES Flickr. PIKES ON BIKES RSS. Biking and hiking in the greater ranges. Peru’s Cordilleras Blanca & Huayhuash. Peaks & Treks. Jiri to Hile via Gokyo, EBC, Nepal. Annapurna Circuit and Sanctuary, Nepal. GHT – Manma to Chyangthapu, Nepal. Kabru Base camp, Sikkim, India. Gangotri, Uttarakhand, India. Hem Kund and Valley of Flowers, Uttarakhand, India. Pindari Glacier, Uttarakhand, India. Markha Valley, Ladakh, India. Rusi La, Kashmir, India. We ju...
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- PIKES ON BIKES
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PIKES ON BIKES Facebook. PIKES ON BIKES Twitter. PIKES ON BIKES Flickr. PIKES ON BIKES RSS. Biking and hiking in the greater ranges. Peru’s Cordilleras Blanca & Huayhuash. Peaks & Treks. Assembling bikes by torchlight at Lairg station. En route to Ben Hope, the second of the trip’s eleven Munros. Sizing up Ben Hope, and working out where to stash the fatties as we trotted up the hill on foot. About to head off-road into Glen Golly. A fun little shortcut to Arkle. Foinavon, on the walk up Arkle. Heading u...
big-sur.co.uk
Canada | Big Sur
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Alaska to Patagonia by bike. August 16th, 2011. It may have taken five weeks to finally see one, but looking after ourselves in Grizzly Country has been a full-time job, hanging food in trees, cooking food well away from camp, carrying bear spray. It seems apt then that the wheels on our bikes are called Grizzlies . Many Alaskans go out and shoot a moose once a year, using the meat to stock their freezer for the winter ahead. A fellow camper, carrying some of his moose sausages (made by a Polish butc...
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Features - Stephen Fabes
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Tales from the road. Blog posts by country. Health, disease and inequality. Over the last few years my writing has been published in a number of travel and cycling magazines and websites. Here’s a selection of my recently published work:. CNN – Volcano daredevils. The Telegraph – Naked cycling in Portland. Winner of Just Back travel writing competition, commended in annual round-up). BBC – Sleeping in Mongolia – while ice cracks below. Backpacker – Inside Nepal’s deadly blizzard. Cycle – White Space.
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Costa Rica | Big Sur
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Alaska to Patagonia by bike. Costa Rica: hubs, hounds – and hospitality. August 10th, 2012. A broken Rohloff hub. An angry, biting dog. Daily drenchings as the rainy season switched up a gear. Roads blocked by landslides. A doubling of our daily costs with a return to US prices. To borrow a phrase from our good friend Lee, Costa Rica was, at times, something of a shit show. After an impromptu overnight stay with Vicente in Guayabo, we cut across towards Laguna Arenal via a network of tracks and the villa...
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Guatemala | Big Sur
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Alaska to Patagonia by bike. May 24th, 2012. To any non-cyclist, I can imagine this sounds incredibly melodramatic. If a hill is too steep to cycle up, then of course you just get a bus. What’s the big problem? No-one of course. Except that we did care – because for the first time in 10 months and 10,000km, we’d had to admit that we couldn’t actually cycle this road. But I had underestimated just how steep this wall of mountains that welcomed us to Guatemala were. Instead we should stick with our approac...
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The Welsh Ride Thing: May 2011
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The Welsh Ride Thing. The WRT has moved. If you're looking for info, entries or anything else bikepacking related try Bear Bones Bikepacking. The Bear Bones blog. Or the Bear Bones forum. Yea, yea, yea, but what is it? Tuesday, May 31, 2011. It was fantastic to see so many smiling faces. Some might have been smiling due to the relief of being home safe and sound, for others the smiles were proof of their achievements . all were great to see. Kevin . ALL 15 GR and just about to ride 25 miles home! 8226; S...
