Adventure Cyclist
Scenes from the Saddle
Drawn by the promise of sunshine, scenic gravel, and 65 degrees in November, Amelia and I hopped on a plane headed for Tucson, Arizona. We cross our fingers that our ...
A bikepacking trip may sound like an intimidating way of spending the holidays, and I get it! It might seem tough and unrealistic. Perhaps you believe you’re not fit enough for ...
Life is not defined by your weaknesses, the adversity you face, or your many shortcomings. Life will be defined by how you build strength in the face of that weakness, ...
Mist rising from the waterfall shimmers in the late afternoon sunbeams that cut through the forest. As I look up at the ravine wall we’ve descended to stand next to ...
I was getting ready to go for a bike ride with a friend when I got the call. I stood on her back porch as my doctor choked on the ...
This article first appeared in the October/November 2022 issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine. I’d never ridden a bike on organs splattered across a hillside, but that’s what one of my Nepali hosts, ...
This article first appeared in the October/November 2022 issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine. In 1928, Russian Gleb Travin dreamed of cycling around the world by crossing the Bering Strait all the way ...
Twelve years ago, I worked in a bike shop with all men and raced mountain bikes on a team with only three other females. My fellow women racers were wonderful ...
As the sun begins to rise over Prince Edward Island’s Hillsborough River, casting beams of light across the floor of our room in the Bishop’s Rest B&B, I take in ...
The first bike trip I ever did, a bike overnight, is one I bring up a lot. I believe in “Run What Ya Brung.” Back then I “brung” my 1970s ...
