We are thrilled to announce that we can now take you packrafting on the Dirty Devil River! Spend two days paddling through winding red sandstone canyons, exploring side slot canyons and camping under dark, starry skies on sandy beaches. Want in? We will take a group of no more than eight on a trip this…
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We have exciting news! Our learn to bikeraft and intermediate bikerafting course permits for the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area have been approved, plus we now, with additional BLM permits, can packraft the Dirty Devil River. No, sorry we cannot bikeraft the Dirty Devil. But for those of you excited about bikerafting, consider a two-day…
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It’s snowing! And it’s supposed to snow all week. The skiers are stoked. The snowmobilers are stoked. Our puppy is REALLY really stoked. Let’s just hope this continues through the winter. If it does then maybe, just maybe, we’ll be able to run packrafting trips on Dolores River from McPhee Reservoir and downriver in 2022.…
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You’d rather be riding your bike right now, eh? So would we! We’ve been riding a lot this year, on the dirt roads down to the Ranch, into the Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park with the five fall tours we did in October, from Scullbinder Ranch over the mountains to Telluride, and on the local…
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Click HERE to learn more about the Dolores River Conservation Area Proposal and to submit your comments. Click here for a direct link to write Senator Bennet! Dear Senator Michael Bennet, We run a unique multi-sport adventure guide & instructional service out of Mancos, Colorado, called Four Corners Guides. We rely on a steady supply…
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October 8th Mancos Bikes & Brews Film Festival +++ The Can Cup Bike Polo Meet @ Boyle Park on Oct 9th Join us on October 8th at the Mancos Brewing Company for a Bikes & Brews Film Festival! We’re running this fundraiser in conjunction with the Colorado Can Cup Bike Polo Meet, being held in…
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“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 Roman contribute immensely to the bike-packraft adventure lore with his groundbreaking trips around the world. And, thankfully, he contributed significantly to this book. He wrote the excellent Foreword you can read on TheBikeraftGuide.com blog. He also allowed us to interview him for hours and he…
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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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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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