Ep. 922: Building Florida’s Best Bikepacking Routes - Karlos Rodriguez Bernart
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Karlos’ passion for touring by bike came out of the necessity to learn the skills needed to complete the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route. Filled with the desire to create training routes in his local area of Florida, he discovered a talent for connecting green spaces and reviving old pathways and started inviting folks to join his crazy adventures…and they came willingly.
Over 15 years later, Karlos is known as the best bikepacking route builder in Florida and is responsible for getting hundreds of people per year to experience the Florida Wildlife Corridor, many for the first time. You can learn more about Karlos and his Florida-focused routes and guided trips at singletracksamurai.com, on Facebook, and on Instagram @singletracksamurai.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host Mason. Hope you had a good weekend. |
| 0:26.4 | Before we jump into today's episode, which I'm very excited about, I wanted to make you aware that the last episode we played on Thursday with Amy Begg, it was a revisited episode from a handful of years ago. |
| 0:38.8 | But what I didn't mention in the intro is that Amy actually has passed away. She was involved in a skydiving accident |
| 0:44.8 | a couple years ago back in 2019. And yeah, I didn't mention that in the intro and I meant to. |
| 0:50.5 | And so we did mention that on Instagram, but forgot to mention it in the intro. She lived an |
| 0:54.5 | incredible life 33 years old and absolutely lived life to the fullest and has touched thousands, |
| 1:00.5 | countless lives, honestly, and all the amazing adventures she'd done very experienced skydiver, |
| 1:05.5 | had done 800 jumps. So it is very sad that she is no longer with us. But I wanted to mention |
| 1:10.5 | that as I did not mention it in the intro, the last episode. |
| 1:14.0 | Going into today's episode, we're talking to Carlos Rodriguez-Bernard. There's a lot going on here. So I'm going to take a couple minutes. This is going to be a little bit longer intro than normal. What's going on here is I'm born and raised in Florida, Florida in the United States, for anyone listening outside the U.S. |
| 1:30.2 | And I was getting into mountain biking in college, and a lot of my friends and I wanted to do these long bike trips. |
| 1:35.9 | That's kind of my entire introduction into adventure sports, was bike packing and bike touring. |
| 1:41.3 | There wasn't a whole lot of that going on here in Florida. |
| 1:44.0 | There was one person, |
| 1:45.1 | however, who was kind of the go-to person that was building all the routes, creating all the systems, |
| 1:51.0 | like basically the entire culture of bikepacking in the area revolved around this singular person, |
| 1:56.2 | like the son of the bikepacking solar system. And that was Carlos. And his name was just permeated through all the conversations we had, Carlos, this, |
| 2:04.1 | Carlos that. |
| 2:04.7 | Well, I finally got to meet Carlos about 10 years ago on the tour divide, |
| 2:10.1 | the bike race from Banff, Alberta, Canada, all the way to Mexico on the Continental |
| 2:15.2 | Divide route. |
| 2:16.1 | And what I love about Carlos' story is it wasn't, |
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