Ep. 082: Brett Davis - Bike Packing Expeditions
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2015
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Brett Davis from Outdoor Pursuits at Ft Lewis College in Durango, Colorado joins us today and rocks the mic with great accounts of bike packing on the Colorado Trail, the Great Divide Trail, and even exploring a new route in Alaska. Bike packing and pack rafting! If you like mountain bikes or even if you don't, you won't want to miss this one!
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| 0:00.0 | until we could safely navigated by pack raft and then we broke down the bikes, put them back on the rafts, |
| 0:06.7 | and then we floated 90 miles out towards the Arctic Ocean. This is the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:33.2 | Brought to you by 180 Tack. Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:39.2 | Episode 82, Brett Davis, Bikepacking Expeditions. |
| 0:52.2 | Hello and welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. This is your host, Kurt Linville. We have a returning |
| 0:57.5 | guest today, Brett Davis. Brett Davis, you may recall from episode 44, he was talking about at the time |
| 1:04.9 | Outdoor Pursuits at Fort Lewis College in Drango, Colorado. Brett Davis is the coordinator of outdoor pursuits there, |
| 1:12.7 | and it's an amazing program that introduces college students to all sorts of adventure sports. |
| 1:18.0 | But that's not really why we have Brett here today. |
| 1:20.9 | We wanted to visit with Brett more specifically about one of his favorite sports, |
| 1:25.6 | which is bike packing. |
| 1:27.2 | So you use a mountain bike-style bike. about one of his favorite sports, which is bike packing. |
| 1:37.2 | So you use a mountain bike style bike with the right type of a gear set up so that you can go on multi-day backcountry trips on a bicycle. |
| 1:39.4 | So it's like backpacking, but with a bike. |
| 1:41.1 | And here's something else really cool. |
| 1:46.6 | Brett Davis is friends with Steve Fastbinder. Now, Steve was on the show several weeks back. Steve was talking to us about pack crafting, but here's something |
| 1:51.4 | that's really cool. Brett and Steve know each other, and they just returned from an epic trip to |
| 1:56.7 | Alaska, where they went up toward the Arctic Circle in the Brooks Range. So first, Brett, welcome |
| 2:02.6 | very much to the program again. We're really glad to have you back. Thanks, Kurt. I'm super |
| 2:06.9 | psyched, buddy. Super psych. Well, we want to hear just a brief summary of this adventure toward the |
| 2:12.0 | Arctic Circle in the Brooks Range. Before we dive into this bike packing, you got to tell us what |
| 2:17.0 | happened up in alaska this |
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