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Bikepacking from Spokane to the Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival in Medical Lake

Leave a Comment / Biking, Festivals, Get Out There / By Carol Corbin

By Carol Corbin Cover photo courtesy of Derrick Knowles Honestly, the musical genre barely registered when Out There Outdoors publisher Derrick Knowles invited me and several other riders to bikepack from Spokane to Medical Lake, Washington, for the 2024 Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival in August. It takes very little for me to say “yes” to […]

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Bikepacking 101 Seminar & Group Ride & Campout

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By Eric Deady Cover photo courtesy of Sue Craigmile If you are bikepacking curious, mark your calendar for Friday, May 17 at 6 p.m. for a bikepacking for beginners seminar at Two Wheeler bike shop in Hayden, Idaho. Topics will include bike choice, how to carry gear, mapping and route finding, and more. The following

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The Great Bikepacking Debate

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Cover photo courtesy Phil Godley EXPLANATORY STATEMENT Bikepacking is a method of recreation that entails riding your bicycle loaded with all of your camp gear across potentially wild terrain to get to and from a predetermined campsite. “The Packfiller Podcast” host and creator Pat Bulger went on his first bikepacking trip last summer, and he

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Sea to Summit Telos TR2 Bikepacking Tent

Leave a Comment / Gear Reviews, Gear Room, Get Out There / By Derrick Knowles

I took the Telos TR2 two-person tent on a four-day bikepacking trip in Central Idaho last fall and was struck by several features of this popular Sea to Summit backpacking tent that’s been retrofitted for bikepacking. First, it comes in two waterproof, highly durable dry sacks that, with the included stretch straps, allow you to

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Bikepacking the Kettle Valley Rail Trail

Leave a Comment / Biking, Destinations, Get Out There / By Carol Corbin

Rolling out of Midway, B.C., on fully loaded bikes in the pouring rain might make one think that things can’t get worse, but the Kettle Valley Rail Trail (KVRT) had more surprises for us along the way. As the two soggy riders we met at our jumping off point, who’d bailed because of mud and

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Cyclist Justin Short on his gravel bike looking tired after riding over 200 miles, 30 miles, with over 17,000 feet of elevation gain.

Surviving the Odyssey of the VOG Bikepacking Race

Leave a Comment / Biking / By Justin M. Short

Justin Short’s trip report about riding Odyssey of the VOG in Oregon, a multi-day 350-mile bikepacking race with 32,000′ elevation gain.

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Bikes parked at Riverside State Park's Nine Mile Falls Dam area.

Imagine Bikepacking a New “Spokane Trail”

Leave a Comment / Biking, Columns, Editorial, Get Out There, Lifestyle / By Derrick Knowles

What if Spokane had a long-distance trail encircling the city that connected parks and conservations areas using existing trails & pathways?

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Illustration of author/cyclist slurping a huckleberry milkshake while sitting on a tree stump with mountain bike, loaded with panniers and bikepacking gear, leaning against stump.

Fall Bikepacking Rambles, From Idaho to Montana

Leave a Comment / Biking, Columns, Everyday Cyclist, Get Out There, Lifestyle / By Justin M. Short

Everyday Cyclist: Justin M. Short shares shoulder season rambles about his fall bikepacking adventure in north Idaho and western Montana.

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Bikepack riding a gravel road on Oregon's Big Country Route, alongside sagebrush.

9 Days on Oregon’s Big Country Bikepacking Route

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Travel journal about bikepacking 357 miles through the mountainous desert terrain of southeast Oregon and northern Nevada.

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Bikepacking Gear Upgrade

Biking, Gear Reviews, Gear Room, Get Out There / By Derrick Knowles

The gear I cobbled together for my first couple of bikepacking trips included a cheap rack that mounted to my seat post, a few dry bags, several bungy cords, and one huge backpack. Many miles and back aches later, I made some major gear upgrades last fall in preparation for a 280-mile ride along the Cape Loop of the Baja Divide Trail

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