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…
Illustration by Jeremie Lamart, a The Bikeraft Guide contributor. How-To Do a Self-Supported Packrafting Trip on the Grand Story by Lizzy Scully. Photos by Steve Fassbinder. Illustration by Jeremie Lamart. Please note we do not guide the Grand and will never guide the Grand. However, we can teach you many of the skills you need…
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,…
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,…
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…
Updated FCG Operations Plans Reflect CDC, State & Federal Covid-19 Guidelines 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 time in order to address…
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…
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…
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…
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,”…