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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the bikeraft guide Podcast #3: The Ideal Multi-Tool? What Boat Should I Get? Best Bike for Bikerafting? In this two-part The Bikeraft Guide podcast 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…
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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 (aka Navajo) Youth Go Bikerafting! Story by Jon Yazzie, photos by Steve Fassbinder 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…
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The Bikeraft Guide Podcast, #1
Lower Dirty Devil Bikerafting Flash Tour! This post was originally published on Doom’s blog April 12, 2011. Four Corners Guides now runs Dirty Devil Bikerafting tours, along with bikerafting on nearby Lake Powell. Want to read more Storytime with Doom tales, check out, “Foolz Tour: Aka Desert Therapy.” Want to join us on a trip…
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Booked Thru October! We’ve been so busy! Steve and I both took separate vacations at the end of August, me on a weeklong, 150-mile bikepacking loop tour from Mancos, back to Mancos, through the La Plata mountains (see photos & other photos) and Steve packrafting some sweet backcountry terrain in Idaho for a week. But,…
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Multi-sport adventurer, filmmaker and Kiwi, Deane Parker, recently came out with a new bikerafting film, “Forgotten Highways,” which was featured on Bikepacking.com. This short film documents a six-day journey during which Deane and his three partners explore New Zealand’s Whanganui River and learn about its history. Deane is one of, “The Bikeraft Guide,” authors. We…
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Four Corners Guides partners with Dzil Ta’ah Adventures to run Navajo Youth Bikepacking & Bikerafting Series this fall Dzil Ta’ah Adventures and Four Corners Guides are taking the plunge! We’ve started the process of getting our Navajo Youth Bikepacking and Bikerafting program up and running. We’ll be doing a series of three trips this fall,…
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