Time Bandits and the Presidential Rail Trail
You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today And then one day you find ten years have got behind you No one told you...
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Apr 5, 2021
Bikepacking Martha's Vineyard
"There’s something on my face". I was just drifting off to sleep when I snapped back to the present. I was in my bivy and it was pitch...
Mar 28, 2021
Revolutionary Overnighter
There is a place in Yellowstone National Park that’s more than twenty one miles from the closest road. It requires a week-long, seventy...
Mar 21, 2021
The Huracan't
We were lost. The sawgrass and trees closed in around us as we trudged along the bank of a small river looking for the crossing ...
Dec 1, 2020
Massachusetts Parks Just Can't Say No to Bikepackers
You've fallen far short of your daily cycling goal, and you're not going to make that hotel you booked another twenty miles down the trail...
Nov 27, 2020
The Taconic Crest Trail & The Hidden Gear
Harvey’s lake was the center of my adolescent social universe. If you’ve ever been there, you’d probably be amazed it was the center of...
Nov 21, 2020
Flyover Space: A Ride Through Middle Massachusets
The rain wouldn’t quit. What I thought had been a passing burst- given its intensity- wouldn’t relent. It poured and poured. I had...
Nov 17, 2020
Singletrack Mining in Southern New Hampshire
The White Mountains. Winnipesaukee. The Seacoast. Ask any New Englander to talk about must-see destinations in New Hampshire and these...
Oct 1, 2020
Big Dirty Codder: Cape Cod by Mountain Bike
It was 1980 something and my family's ancient powder blue Ford Grenada lurched along the highway with Grandpa Turner’s pop-up camper...
Oct 9, 2019
A Punch to the Stomach Before Going Home: Day Five of the Vermont to Rhode Island Adventure Ride
I was around five years old when it happened. I was walking home from the babysitter’s house and decided to take the long way, because it...
Oct 3, 2019
Connecticut’s Chlorophyll Superhighways: Day Four of the Vermont to Rhode Island Adventure Ride
The coughing from my neighbor’s room woke me from a dead sleep. My eyes opened, and I gasped for breath. As I wandered into the...
Jun 4, 2019
Miles of Metacomet: Day Three, Vermont to Rhode Island Adventure Ride
Despite it being part of New England, I’ve never looked at Connecticut with the same respect or admiration as I do to Maine, New...
Jan 12, 2019
Seven Levels of Wet: Day Two, Vermont to Rhode Island Adventure Ride
I was on the second day of my Vermont to Rhode Island adventure ride trying to link together trails all the way across New England. ...
Jan 7, 2019
Taconicked: Day One, Vermont to Rhode Island Adventure Ride
How far can you get on trails? That’s the burning question that has motivated my bike adventures for the better part of two years now: ...
Mar 2, 2018
Unfinished Business: The Last Slice of the Boston to Northampton Trail Epic
Andy “One-Slice”. That’s the nickname my mentor jokingly gave me after noting my habit of ordering a small pizza and then eating all but...
Nov 11, 2017
A Kingdom Sampler: Bikepacking Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom
Brandon and I were running out of daylight. Miles short of our goal, we pushed our bikes through dense forest and around jagged rocks,...
Sep 15, 2017
Boston to Northampton Epic Trail Ride: Part One
The light was fading fast as I slowly walked my bike up a ribbon of steep, rocky singletrack beneath the high canopy of old hardwoods. ...
Jan 1, 2017
COOS Loop
The COOS Loop is a 235+ mile loop in the northern reaches of New Hampshire. Home to some of the most remote and wild New England terrain,...
Jan 1, 2017
The Adirondack Trail Ride
Behold The Adirondack Trail Ride. Circling the Adirondack Park, this 585+ mile route consists of a mix of singletrack, snomo trails,...
Jan 1, 2017
Vermont Super 8
The Vermont Super 8 (formerly known as the XVT) is a dirt and gravel bikepacking route that traverses much of the state of Vermont....
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