Fiona spends more time outside than the average room full of North American kids. She’s a veteran winter bikepacker and much more. So I had to take her seriously when she asked to go on a paddling weekend with me for the May long weekend. After asking around and doing some Google “research”, I decided…
Of course I just put up a link to a podcast that mentioned me, which reminded me that I was the featured guest on the biketown podcast a few months ago. All their podcasts are worth listening to, they have talked to some brilliant people, I’m glad to have been a part of it. Here…
The Highwood Pass highway closes on December 1 every year for the winter. We decided to squeeze in one last camping trip to our favourite spot, Elbow Lake. This time we brought along Fiona’s schoolmate to share the adventure. We also brought Fiona’s class mascot since it was her turn to have him home…
Our second day of hiking dawned a little hazy. We assumed it was some sort of weird fog until it occurred to us that it was responsible for the campfire smell that we had noticed during the night. Even with our view obscured by campfire smoke, the trail was stunning. Since the longer view was…
My bike on the Iditarod Trail Back in the days before before fatbikes were common, there was a bike/run/ski race on the Iditarod trail called the Iditasport. In 2002, it was replaced by the Iditarod Trail Invitational. In 2001, the final year of Iditasport, RJ Sauer made a documentary called “A Thin White Line.”…
While we were late for the New Year’s group ride, we followed their route and Tadhg kicked ass. He rode lots, pushed the steeper parts and had a great time.
You know your family is hardcore when the slow biker recognizes the coldbike family on the trail in BC when he is from Newfoundland and you are from Calgary. I somehow failed to snap a photo of Malcolm, but he is my favourite kind of people. http://theslowbiker.wordpress.com/
Vik has a nice summary of our recent trip on his blog, stay tuned for our writeup.
There are no kids or winter in this one, but there is fun, and me getting a bear’s perspective on bear spray. Vik and I will be heading out with my kids in a week.
My first blog post about Tadhg fatbikepacking has gotten some super positive feedback. When I arranged to get Tadhg his Mukluk, a couple of people questioned the wisdom of buying a kid a real bike. They thought I should get him a BSO for a couple of hundred dollars because: (more…)
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