“About one in 5 U.S. hospitals with intensive care units, or 583 total hospitals, recently reported that at least 95 percent of their I.C.U. beds were full. In the week ending Aug. 5, an average of 74 percent of intensive care hospital beds were occupied nationwide, according to a dataset released weekly by the Department…
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Without Roman Dial the sport of bikerafting wouldn’t likely exist. Not only did he contribute immensely to the bike and packraft adventure lore with his groundbreaking trips around the world, but he also contributed significantly to this book. He wrote the excellent Foreword you can read on TheBikeraftGuide.com blog, he also allowed us to interview…
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Day 1: Mountain Bikepacking: the La Platas At 5p.m. Wednesday, July 14, Doom and I left our house in Mancos, Colo., to do some mountain biking. We rode until dusk into the San Juan Mountains (specifically the west side of the La Platas). It has been raining daily for weeks, and our forecast was a…
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Drysuits for Sale! Packrafting season is over, so we’re selling off our inventory of drysuits. All drysuits for sale are basically like new, though the medium men’s NRS has had a minor repair. Price: $450 Kokatat Men’s Hydrus 3.0 Swift Entry Drysuit, Medium, orange, originally $620-650. Barely used. Read more about this suit. $500 NRS…
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Men’s Journal: “Chasing Doom” Thanks to Graham Averill and Men’s Journal for featuring one of our fall 2020 “Doom Tours” in their latest issue. As soon as it’s available online, we’ll share with y’all. Want to know what a burly tour with Doom and Four Corners Guides looks like? Grab a copy this month, April…
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How-To Do a Self-Supported Packrafting Trip on the Grand Story by Lizzy Scully. Photos by Steve Fassbinder. Illustration by Jeremie Lamart. Please note we do not guide the Grand and will never guide the Grand. However, we can teach you many of the skills you need to know to eventually do your own Grand Canyon…
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The Ideal Multi-Tool? What Boat Should I Get? Best Bike for Bikerafting? In this two-part series, we are taking excerpts from our DOOM Zoom Package presentation on January 29th, 2021, and turning them into two podcasts, with some enhanced re-recordings (since we had such terrible technical difficulties during the actual presentation). This first 45-minute episode…
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A Short Film About Rock Climbing & Bikerafting Southern Utah, by Steve “Doom” Fassbinder A Foolz Errand: Bikeraft-Rock Climbing the Southern Utah Desert from Four Corners Guides on Vimeo. A Fool’s Errand: Catharsis, Mud and Tears in the Utah Desert When was the last time you went on a road trip without some app telling…
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Diné Youth Go Bikerafting! It was a quiet dusty drive up the Moki Dugway. We passed Kane Gulch Ranger Station with the last of the evening’s sun thrusting the Bears Ears in full view when it dawned on me that I had no idea what we were about to embark on for the weekend. Caravanning…
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Storytime With Doom: La Perouse Glacier & Roman’s Little Boat Hello and welcome to The Bikeraft Guide, The Ultimate How-To Guide, History Of & Wild Adventures Stories About Bikerafting. I’m Lizzy Scully, the host of this podcast and the co-author of the book, along with Steve “Doom” Fassbinder. This community multi-media storytelling project includes film,…
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