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Great Divide Mountain Bike Route 2025
GDMBR 2025 — Day 4: Gravel Misery and Zero Mountains (our 20th Wedding Anniversary!)
I won’t sugarcoat it. Today was 90% misery and disappointment only salvaged by a nice climb in crisp, clean morning air and our true saviors who pulled us…
Ben & Liz
Great Divide Mountain Bike Route 2025
GDMBR 2025 — Day 3: Mountains at Last!
The plan for the second half of today (after arriving in Frisco on the bus) was to finally join the actual GDMBR route and climb some mountains! By…
Ben & Liz
Great Divide Mountain Bike Route 2025
GDMBR 2025 — Day 2 and half of day 3: More Prologue
Previously on “BLizWatch” our intrepid travelers were driving to western Illinois to catch a train. Overall nothing major to report but there were a few snags that add…
Ben & Liz
Great Divide Mountain Bike Route 2025
GDMBR 2025 — Day 1: Prologue
The Great Divide Mountain Bike Route, or GDMBR, is a patchwork of paved roads, gravel roads, dirt trails, single track and rugged hiking trails that extends from Jasper,…
Ben & Liz
Alps 2024 (Harald)
Announcing the 2024 Alps trip Video Series by Harald!
Last summer (July 2024) when Harald and I bikepacked through the Swiss and Italian Alps, we both captured hours and hours of video footage. Some of that made…
Ben
Alps 2024 (Harald)
Alps 2024 – The Wind Down and The Return
The main event is complete, but there’s still plenty of stuff to resolve. It’s Saturday afternoon and I’m at a vacation rental in Rablà (Italy). My flight back…
Ben
Alps 2024 (Harald)
Alps 2024 — Day 11: Vipiteno to Rablà via Merano
Last night I started feeling a bit unwell and found I couldn’t eat very much and my stomach was upset. This isn’t uncommon for me, but it was…
Ben
Alps 2024 (Harald)
Alps 2024 — Day 10: Villabassa to Vipiteno
Last night we woke up in a small B&B that we’d booked the afternoon prior. This has been our normal process — put together a rough plan for…
Ben
Alps 2024 (Harald)
Alps 2024 — Day 9: Sauris to Villabassa via Cortina
Surprise, surprise, today we’re going on a bike ride! There’s a certain routine to our days now. Harald and I can (and do) pack up without a word.…
Ben
Alps 2024 (Harald)
Alps 2024 — Day 8: Pieve di Cadore to Sauris
Last night we had “the talk”: A routing discussion where we took a close look at the remaining “aspirational” route through Italy and Slovenia to see what’s practical…
Ben