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.…
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…
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…
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…
Need some good adventure reads or fun films to watch? You can always check out Doom’s blog, here. It’s chock full of history from some of his earliest rides. He originally published on blogger, but that mysteriously disappeared (along with many photos). Luckily we transferred most of the posts to this website a few years…
Launch Party @ Pine Needle Drygoods, Durango, Friday, September 13th Hey peeps, we’ll be officially launching our new multi-sport adventure guide service, Four Corners Guides, on Friday, September 13th, at Pine Needle Dry Goods (aka the Patagonia store) in Durango. Thaddeus CArtmell Ferrell will open the show with a short slide presentation on fly fishing…
We’re Officially Launching Four Corners Guides Next Friday! Long-time Durango Devo Explorers coach and professional mountain biker and photographer, Steve “Doom” Fassbinder is launching a new multi-sport (bikepack, packrafting, bikerafting) adventure guide service this fall with his partner, Lizzy Scully. They are launching Four Corners Guides in conjunction with one of their lead guides, Thad…
A Solo Bikerafting Adventure in Tajikistan Doom won “Best Trip Photography” in Bikepacking.com’s annual Awards for Film & Photography, for a solo bikerafting trip to Tajikistan. Doom has won two previous Bikepacking.com Awards, including “The Ballsiest Explorer,” in 2015 for a bikeraft trip to the Brooks Range and “Explorer of the Year” in 2017 (with…
Bikepacking Roots – Learn More! Update June 11, 2020: Lizzy became the VP of the board during the BPR board retreat November 2019. She’s recently finished the brand guidelines and marketing plan for the organization, working hard with its ED, Kurt Refsnider, and the entire board. Woohoo!!! Lizzy recently joined the Bikepacking Roots Board of…