Bikepacking
Norway 2026
Norwegian Summer 2026 – Day 5: Skei to Dalseter
A much simpler day, finally! We did the usual morning things (breakfast in the hotel – another banger buffet, packing up, all that) and were on the road…
Ben & Liz
Norway 2026
Norwegian Summer 2026 – Day 4: Sjusjøen to Skei
A drizzly start. A parking lot repair. Lots of beautiful gravel. Even more climbing. These are the things to come! We slept in a bit, cleaned up the…
Ben & Liz
Norway 2026
Norwegian Summer 2026 – Day 3: Oslo to Sjusjøen
Eight solid hours of sleep, and only this morning did it really sink in how lucky we’d been yesterday. I could have dropped that passport just about anywhere,…
Ben & Liz
Norway 2026
Norwegian Summer 2026 – Days 1 and 2: Madison to Oslo
Woke up at 4:30 in the morning, which sounds like punishment but was actually strategy: the whole idea was to drag ourselves a little closer to Norwegian time…
Ben & Liz
Norway 2026
Norwegian Summer 2026 – Day 0: Packing
So today we’re not headed out — we’re packing for the trip that gets us headed out tomorrow. We leave Madison in the afternoon, fly to Detroit, where…
Ben & Liz
Spring Fling 2026
Spring Fling 2026 — Day 4: Lancaster to Blue River
The day started like many others lately with the continental breakfast at the hotel. Pretty standard fare — I had a waffle, except I stood there listening to…
Spring Fling 2026
Spring Fling 2026 — Day 3: Galena to Lancaster
Day three started beautifully. Galena has one of those genuinely lovely exits — out through the old residential neighborhoods, quiet streets, a Saturday morning that makes you feel…
Spring Fling 2026
Spring Fling 2026 — Day 1: Madison to Rockford
Spring had been scheming against us for a while, so Harald and I decided to scheme right back. A few months back we started cooking up a five-day…
Great Divide Mountain Bike Route 2025
GDMBR 2025 — Wrapping Up!
The Whole Enchilada Over twelve days of riding from August 18, 2025 to August 29, 2025 we covered 460 miles with 32,500 ft of elevation gain. During that…
Ben & Liz
Great Divide Mountain Bike Route 2025
GDMBR 2025 — Days 10-13: A Wild and Remote Adventure
Going into the trip, I had this stretch flagged as something to be very careful going into. From Horca to El Rito (over 120 miles and likely three…
Ben & Liz