Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park Bikepacking Tour – A Guest’s Perspective By Mike Adamski My blank spots. Your blank spots. Maybe they are places just outside your door that for one reason or another, you haven’t been. It could be geologically challenging — a mountain or river corridor. Or it could be that an area…
Need some good adventure reads or fun films to watch? You can always check out Doom’s blog, here. It’s chock full of history from some of his earliest rides. He originally published on blogger, but that mysteriously disappeared (along with many photos). Luckily we transferred most of the posts to this website a few years…
Launch Party @ Pine Needle Drygoods, Durango, Friday, September 13th Hey peeps, we’ll be officially launching our new multi-sport adventure guide service, Four Corners Guides, on Friday, September 13th, at Pine Needle Dry Goods (aka the Patagonia store) in Durango. Thaddeus CArtmell Ferrell will open the show with a short slide presentation on fly fishing…
Your Short Trip Bikeraft Kit: What Should You Take on Your Next 2-Day Adventure? Story by Lizzy Scully. Most photos by Doom. Pics of gear laid out by river and shot of person cutting veggies by Spencer Harding. “Bringing the right amount of the appropriate gear is, in my mind, a critical component to any…
We’re Officially Launching Four Corners Guides Next Friday! Long-time Durango Devo Explorers coach and professional mountain biker and photographer, Steve “Doom” Fassbinder is launching a new multi-sport (bikepack, packrafting, bikerafting) adventure guide service this fall with his partner, Lizzy Scully. They are launching Four Corners Guides in conjunction with one of their lead guides, Thad…
Wouldn’t want to get your shoes dirty… now would ya? In October 2016, Steve “Doom” Fassbinder embarked on a climb and packraft trip to the Curecanti Needle, near Gunnison, Colorado. His partners included Thad Ferrell, owner of King Fisher Fly Guides and one of Four Corners Guide’s partners, as well as Durango-locals Jon Bailey and…
A Solo Bikerafting Adventure in Tajikistan Doom won “Best Trip Photography” in Bikepacking.com’s annual Awards for Film & Photography, for a solo bikerafting trip to Tajikistan. Doom has won two previous Bikepacking.com Awards, including “The Ballsiest Explorer,” in 2015 for a bikeraft trip to the Brooks Range and “Explorer of the Year” in 2017 (with…
Doom (aka Steve Fassbinder) recently wrote a piece on his trip to Tajikstan for sponsor and long-time supporter, Revelate Designs. Read the full article here. “Dirt hut on Wakhan Afgan border: Had another bad sick night, shit the bed. Spent a long nice morning cleaning up doing laundry and napping. It’s worth mentioning that I…
Bikepacking Roots – Learn More! Update June 11, 2020: Lizzy became the VP of the board during the BPR board retreat November 2019. She’s recently finished the brand guidelines and marketing plan for the organization, working hard with its ED, Kurt Refsnider, and the entire board. Woohoo!!! Lizzy recently joined the Bikepacking Roots Board of…