Spring Features: The Radavist & Outside Mag This spring 2020, both The Radavist and Outside Magazine featured Four Corner Guides’ Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park Bikepacking Tour. Want to learn more about this dynamic, unique adventure? Check out these articles: *New* Tribal Park Vlog, by Neil Hannum; “There Are Still Blank Spots on the Map,”…
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A Vlog of Neil Hannum’s 4-Day, 2019 Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park Bikepacking Tour The Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park offers access to pristine, 1000-year-old Ancient Puebloan ruins and a stunning canyon landscape. Avoid the crowds, time constraints, and locked gates of Mesa Verde National Park, and explore one of the Southwest’s best hidden secrets.…
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Colorado Outfitters License & BLM Permits for McPhee Reservoir & the Dolores River In the past month, we received our Colorado River Outfitters License and preliminary approval for permits to do packrafting trips on the Dolores River Wilderness Section and bikerafting trips on McPhee Reservoir! We’ll offer some scheduled tours, but we invite you to…
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Doom’s Tajkistan Bikerafting Kit – The Gear, The Ciggies & The Polaroid Camera What’s in your bikerafting kit? My Bikerafting Kit for Travelling Alone in the Pamirs My objective when I set off alone to explore Tajikistan – Pamir Mountains, Central Asia – was to see the landscapes and people of the farthest reaches of…
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Win Swag or a 1-Day Tour for 2! SIGN UP FOR OUR ENEWSLETTER TODAY! Southern Utah Say you were given the unfortunate choice of having only one place in the world to explore in your life; what would it be? Not a scenario that I would ever want to settle for, but if forced my…
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A Guest’s Perspective – Exploring the Tribal Park by Bicycle Story & photos by Neil Hannum. Feature photo by Spencer Harding. Day 1 As we all gathered in Mancos to start the ride, I introduced myself to the rest of the crew who would be traveling with me for the next few days–Mike, Spencer, Geoff,…
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Packrafting the Grand Canyon Originally published February 2016, Steve “Doom” Fassbinder wrote about his first self-supported packrafting adventure into the Grand Canyon. Please note we do not and never will guide the Grand Canyon, though we can teach you the skills you need to get to the point where you can. I’m going to start…
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Doom’s Featured in Outside Mag, October! And Four Corners Guides Featured as “Success Story” by SBDC Outside Mag: Doom combines mountain biking, rafting, and climbing One of the toughest nights of Steve Fassbinder’s life was spent stuck in an emergency bivy on the 19,000-foot Sim La pass in northern Pakistan, waiting out a midnight storm while…
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Bikerafting & Bike Pushing Story & photos by Steve Fassbinder, originally published December 2103 I hereby dedicate this post to “the pushers,” literally, figuratively, and otherwise. Because, it’s the pushers that do the work, and it is they who push the limits of possibility. The pusher can equally steer you toward greatness, and prod you…
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Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park Bikepacking Tour – A Guest’s Perspective By Mike Adamski Blank Spots on a Map My blank spots. Your blank spots. Maybe they are places just outside your door that for one reason or another, you haven’t been. It could be geologically challenging — a mountain or river corridor. Or it…
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