Part 1: Setup & Handling of a Loaded Bike on Trail Launch Your Shredpacking Career Photos & story by Liz Sampey Bikepacking on gravel, 4wd roads or doubletrack can be a lot of fun. You can load your bike as heavy as you’re willing to push on the climbs without having to worry too much…
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Packrafting with Jaron! Jaron Segay hitting the first major rapid on the Dolores River. Jaron Segay worked the 2022 spring/summer guide season at Scullbinder Ranch for Four Corners Guides in 2022. Doom and I first met Jaron on a bikerafting trip that we ran in conjunction with Jon Yazzie and Nadine Johnson, founders of Dzil…
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An Excerpt from The Bikeraft Guide: Packrafting With Bikes on Flatwater, Fjords & Oceans Greenland It’s not just whitewater that people packrafting with bikes need to be wary of. Take no body of water lightly, says Huw Oliver, a Scottish adventurer. On his trip to Greenland with partner Annie Lloyd-Evans, he learned this the hard…
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This past May, we hosted our first Advanced Packraft Paddling & Expedition Course with lead guides Dan Thurber, Steve “Doom” Fassbinder, and Ben Phillips. Eight people participated in the course on the Animas and Dolores rivers. Waldo Aguayo Riquelme, owner of the Chilean packraft guide service, Scouting Rios, was one of those participants. Waldo also…
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A Bikerafting Epic Excerpt from The Bikeraft Guide Mike Curiak and Eric Parsons attempt to cross in front of the actively calving snout of the La Perouse Glacier. This is the only glacier in North America that calves periodically directly into the Pacific Ocean. Story & photos by Steve “Doom” Fassbinder After setting ourselves up…
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Bikepacking with Huw Oliver: How to Pack Your Bike Photos & story by Huw Oliver Multi-day bike travel is great, and the adventure really gets going when you measure your ride in days. But you already know that. Before the fun starts, there’s the tricky business of working out what gear you need and where…
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How to Packraft: Teaching Friends & Family By Lizzy Scully, photos by Steve “Doom” Fassbinder from a family trip we did summer 2020 on another river. A handful of miles up from a small town near my hometown of Mancos, Colorado, there’s a perfect stretch of river for teaching beginners how to packraft. The put…
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Learn to Bikeraft We started our busy season with a four-day bikerafting 101 course with some heavy hitter cyclists/adventurers this April 15-18. Chris Burkard and Doom are heading out on a long-distance bikerafting circumnavigation of Iceland this July with Rebecca Rusch. But, without much bikerafting experience, Chris was looking for some training. So he and…
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A Bike-Packraft-Climbing Multi-Sport Mission to Wham Ridge Photos & story by Steve “Doom” Fassbinder. This story was originally published on Doom’s blogger blog. Check out Doom’s video on Instagram, or watch on Four Corners Guides YouTube. Ok folks, I have a confession to to make… Doing long hiking days on very well established trails bores…
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Podcast: I Ride A Bike “It was one of the coldest days of the winter when Steve “DOOM” Fassbinder and I connected at 7am in the basement of a friends house in Portland, Maine to chat bikes. He and his partner where visiting from Colorado, and thankfully for me, a mutual acquaintance introduced us just…
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