Tips for Bikepacking
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2016
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Aaron, Greg, and I share tips for choosing a great bikepacking route and attempt to dispel the myth that you need fancy gear to get started.
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| 0:00.0 | Something unexpected has arrived in Happy Meal. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Hello Kitty and friends are teaming up for the ultimate collab. |
| 0:08.3 | Joining your little ones on a fun-fueled adventure. Some fun, some food, it's all inside this happy meal. |
| 0:16.3 | Until the 2nd of February from 11am includes one pre-selected book or toy whilst it's last. |
| 0:20.1 | Hey everyone, welcome to the single tracks podcast. My name is Jeff and today Aaron, Greg and I are going to be |
| 0:27.1 | talking about bikepacking. Specifically, we're going to talk about some of our first |
| 0:32.2 | bike packing experiences, what we've learned on the bikepacking trail and hopefully offer some tips to our listeners |
| 0:39.0 | who are interested in getting started with bikepacking or maybe up in their bikepacking game. |
| 0:45.5 | So, Greg, I know you recently took your first bikepacking trip. Tell us a little bit about that |
| 0:52.0 | trip. Yeah, Jeff. It was a great time. I had one of my |
| 0:55.6 | main goals for the year was to get started bike packing, and I finally got my first trip under my |
| 1:00.6 | belt this October. And it was just in overnight, sort of in my local area, but we put together a |
| 1:07.0 | 53-mile point-to-point ride, ended up doing 5,600 feet of climbing in the two days. But I got |
| 1:13.5 | some friends to join me, so we had a good group of four people. Our goal for the trip was to |
| 1:19.2 | like see the aspens in the fall colors as the leaves are changing. So we put together this |
| 1:24.8 | big route through some of the most beautiful Aspen zones in their local area. |
| 1:30.6 | So it was definitely a great time. |
| 1:33.2 | Most of the ride was dirt roads, but we finished up with 10 miles, a single track, mostly descending. |
| 1:39.2 | So that was a fun little icing on the cake. |
| 1:42.9 | What about you, Aaron? |
| 1:43.6 | It's been a while since you did your first bikepacking trip, but tell us a little bit about it. |
| 1:47.8 | Yeah, my first trip was in 2008, and I just had a few buddies. |
| 1:53.3 | We got together and decided to ride the Pinhoady Trail in Georgia. |
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