What’s new? So much! The Ranch, a BIPOC Scholarship & More The Community Barn at Scullbinder Ranch is well under way, thanks to Doom (check out the heavy lifting he’s done lately)!  We hope to have solar power and running water no later than August, not to mention the kitchen […]

Updated FCG Operations Plans Reflect CDC, State & Federal Covid-19 Guidelines Being outside in a wild, remote area offers an excellent remedy to the pandemic anxiety many of us feel right now. Adventure in the natural world allows us the opportunity to adhere to social distancing protocols, while still enjoying […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 & […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]