Ep. 1170: Wild West Bikepacking Route - Keagan French Revisited
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Bikepacking: Keagan French on Completing the 2,700-Mile Wild West Route from Canada to Mexico, Crossing Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, and Sawtooth Mountains in a 2-Month Mountain Bike Adventure. The Wild West Bikepacking Route is a new 2,700 mile route from Canada to Mexico that stitches together existing unpaved paths and forest roads to create an incredible cross-section experience of the American West.
The route takes riders to incredibly beautiful and iconic places ranging from the red rock deserts of the Grand Canyon and Bryce Canyon to the high-altitude alpine of the Sawtooth Mountains.
Keagan French recently did the entirety of the route in while on a break from work. Today we’ll hear his feedback and stories from his 2-month mountain bike adventure!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:10.1 | Thanks for adventuring with us as we discover what incredible athletes and outdoor enthusiasts are doing all over the world. |
| 0:17.7 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:22.6 | This is Caleb. |
| 0:23.6 | Quick update on my dad, Kurt. |
| 0:27.6 | He did it. |
| 0:28.6 | He successfully summited the tallest peak in Africa, |
| 0:33.6 | one of the seven summits, Kilimanjaro. |
| 0:36.6 | And as I'm recording this, he is on his first of three flights back home. |
| 0:42.3 | So, congratulations to him on a safe and successful journey, |
| 0:49.3 | completing a lifelong dream of his Kilimanjaro. |
| 0:53.3 | And even better that he was able to do it with such a great group of guys, |
| 0:58.0 | and for such an excellent cause, the organization we see hope. |
| 1:05.0 | As a quick reminder, if you've been meaning to, but you haven't yet, you can donate to the fundraiser |
| 1:13.2 | for this trip via the description below for We See Hope. |
| 1:17.6 | It's a fantastic organization. |
| 1:19.8 | It helps so many people in Africa, and I know that my dad is absolutely thrilled to be |
| 1:27.0 | able to partner with that organization for his trip. |
| 1:31.8 | And now on to today's episode. Today's revisited episode is Mason interviewing Kegan French. |
| 1:40.6 | And it's an episode about a still fairly new bike packing route called the Wild West. |
| 1:49.3 | It's a 2,700 mile route. It goes from Canada to Mexico. And it took Keegan two months to finish. |
| 1:58.3 | And in this episode, we hear Mason interviewing Keegan about the adventures he |
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