What’s new? So much! The Ranch, a BIPOC Scholarship & More July 29th Update: Contrary to what we previous reported, we will not be working directly with Bikepacking Roots on a BIPOC project, but instead are starting a Navajo Youth Bikepacking & Bikerafting Program this fall with Jon Yazzie and Nadine Johnson of Dzil Ta’ah…
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Wine & Bicycles – A Napa Valley Bike Ride By Lizzy Scully, photos by Steve “Doom” Fassbinder Ride 50 Miles? What! I never once in the first 44 years of my life imagined doing a 50-mile bike ride in one day, let along multiple 50-milers over three days. I climbed rocks, sometimes a few thousand…
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Updated FCG Operations Plans Reflect CDC, State & Federal Covid-19 Guidelines – Updated August 12, 2021 Updated Tour Protocols Per our comprehensive Risk Management Plan, we assure you that we have numerous and robust procedures and field practices in place to keep everyone safe and healthy. We have updated some of these for this challenging…
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Scullbinder Ranch Cabin Quarantine Greetings from the Scullbinder Ranch cabin. As I write this, Doom is putting the roof on the community barn. Almost the entire project utilizes repurposed materials, including laminate flooring we got from the music room at the Mama Cash Home in Hendersonville, Tenn., where Johnny Cash recorded his last five albums (America…
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Putting Bike Wheels & Other Gear In/On Your Packraft This is the third of a series of 3 videos from our How-To Bikeraft Series. In this video, Doom discusses how to put bike wheels and other gear on a packraft. Please email us or ping us on Instagram or Facebook a with additional questions or…
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Doom On Lashing a Bike Frame to a Packraft This is the second of a series of 3 videos from our How-To Bikeraft Series. Thanks to all the @thebikeraftguide followers who posed these great questions. Please email us or ping us on social media with additional questions or suggestions for videos. Stay tuned for round…
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Doom On How to Deal With Wheels, Axles, Chains & Tie Downs When Lashing a Bike to a Packraft This is the first three in a series of How-To Bikeraft videos we are making for our multi-media and book project, The Bikeraft Guide. This How-To Video Series features multi-sport adventurer Steve “Doom” Fassbinder answering your…
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Greetings from Scullbinder Ranch We spent the past few weeks agonizing over how to keep FCG up and running. We’ve lost all our spring business due to the coronavirus. However, with help from banks and minimizing expenses, we will be alright. Unfortunately, many of our local and national partners are suffering. Our hearts go out…
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Get Outside & Get Off Social Media — A Yogini’s Guide to Dealing with the Coronavirus Heidi Wirtz is a professional rock climber and yogini. She runs Earth Play Retreats, taking people on climbing, surfing, yoga adventures around the world. Heidi is co-leading the first Four Corners Guides yoga & meditation retreat this fall with…
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Bikerafting Greenland story & photos by Huw Oliver. This story is one of one of the “Pirates of Packrafting” stories to be published in The Bikeraft Guide, a community multi-media project and book written and assembled by Steve “Doom” Fassbinder and Lizzy Scully. Bikerafting Greenland: Even Flat Water Can Make Short Work of the Best…
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