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Into The Island of Ice: Bikepacking Baffin Island
8 Mar 28 Logan Watts / videoAn ‘illustrated’ video documenting a bikepacking trip over the Akshayuk Pass, a new 100 mile route across Baffin Island’s Auyuittuq National Park…
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Rocky Mountain Blizzard -30 Review: Back to The Future
11 Mar 9 Miles Arbour / bikesIn an industry that can often be oversaturated with new upgrades, ultra-light carbon everything, and electronic components; there are still those that believe in rock solid bikes with reliable parts. The Rocky Mountain Blizzard -30 is a sturdy fat bike that offers plenty of packing space and mixes just the right amount of modern ingenuity with time-tested features.
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Rider & Rig: Joe Cruz’s Seven Treeline SL
29 Mar 1 Logan Watts / bikesIn the first of a new series, Rider & Rig, we take a look at Joe Cruz’s Seven Treeline SL titanium fat bike. Find out more about the bike, the journeys he takes it on, and how he packs it…
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Warm & Dry Winter Bikepacking: A Packlist
18 Feb 1 Miles Arbour / gear-listsIt doesn’t take long for one’s bikepacking addiction to start pushing you out the door further into the shoulder seasons. But when the dead of winter comes into play, this is a next-level habit. Winter bikepacking offers a whole new set of challenges. Miles shares how he tackled these demands through carefully planning the right gear.
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First Look: Salsa Timberjack, Fargo 27.5+ & the New Mukluk
19 Jul 27 Logan Watts / bikesAt this weeks Saddledrive, with the introduction of a bikepacking bag kit, two new bikes, and major upgrades to several existing models, Salsa hammered their stake a little deeper in the Adventure cycling category. Here’s our first ride impressions on the Fargo 27.5+, the affordable Timberjack, and the redesigned carbon Mukluk…
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Chronic Wetness: Fatbiking Alaska’s Gulf Coast
3 Jul 15 Logan Watts / videoYou won’t find any dropbars, skinny tires, or cut-off jorts (jean-shorts, to the uninitiated) in this video. These are two real deal bikepackers exploring some of the raddest and most tumultuous terrain on earth.
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Norway: Grey and Glittering
10 May 4 Joe Cruz / videoA heady first film by Joe Cruz capturing a summer bikepacking trip from Sweden through Norway to Oslo… plus, background details on its making.
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Rider’s Lens: Capturing Winter, by Hansi Johnson
2 Apr 25 Guest / plogWhile winter is in the rear view mirror for most of us, here’s one final nod to the old man. In our latest installment of Rider’s Lens, we present Hansi Johnson and a collection of photos that truly captures the grit of winter fat biking.
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In Search of The Storm: Himalayan Winter.
1 Mar 4 Logan Watts / videoIn Search of The Storm is a film that documents a fat biking expedition that took three guys to the very edge of the Indian Himalayas… in the dead of winter.
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Sub-Arctic Bikepacking in Alaska’s White Mountains
3 Feb 15 Guest / plogA photo essay from a sub-arctic snow bike trip through Alaska’s White Mountains.
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Maxxis Mammoth Review: Two months in Mongolia
12 Jan 22 Cass Gilbert / gearWe took the Maxxis Mammoth fat bike tire on a two month trip around Mongolia. Given that durability is as important as performance on an overseas, backcountry trip – particularly where spares are in short supply – here’s how it fared…
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Surly Ice Cream Truck Ops Review: Five Fun Days
40 Dec 1 Joe Cruz / bikesWhen loaded with standard bags and modest bikepacking weight, Surly’s Ice Cream Truck is a pleasure to pedal: easy to steer on loose ascents, confident and quick handling down technical chutes, and predictable through twisting treelined singletrack. It’s a capable and flat out fun bike.