There is nothing quite like bikepacking for a long time to test and often kill gear. Riding a bike down little dusty, bumpy trails seems to be a step above hiking in terms of wear. It seems with most gear there are several options that more or less do the same thing. So this is …
Continue reading Gear review: better than the rest, worthy of note and would avoid
South of the heavy hitting tourist highlights of Bariloche and around we slowly returned to the welcoming embrace of the less tourist laden Argentina. Supermarket queues, bumper to bumper paved roads and angry honking horns were replaced with small shop chats, enthusiastic waves and quiet dirt roads. Trevelin is a former Welsh settlement and still …
Continue reading Clouds of hell-death and other fun: Trevelin to Coyhaique
We roll into Llipa about 4pm. It's a tiny dusty village with very little going on. It's perched on a hill, with the Plaza de Armas (centre of every Peruvian town) claiming the highest point. We look for a place to buy a beer but nothing is open and very few people are about. It's …
Continue reading Childhood education and the Family business
We’ve ridden into La Paz from the north twice now, and this last run couldn't have been a starker contrast to the first, as illustrated in the following figures. Figure 1. September 2016. Main road + vicious Giardia + lying on the ground for 5 minutes out of every 15. Figure 2. September 2017. The …
Continue reading The backdoor to La Paz: From Lago Titicaca to La Paz via Condoriri basecamp
This is a day by day description of the exceptionally beautiful Lagunas route from San Juan in Bolivia to San Pedro de Atacama in Chile. View the route on Google Maps Download complete GPX file from San Juan to San Pedro de Atacama The route from San Juan to San Pedro de Atacama We rode this …
Continue reading Cycling the Lagunas in South-West Bolivia: Practical notes for cyclists
‘I’m an oil man’ is what Daniel Day Lewis repeatedly says in the film There Will be Blood. I think. You know that movie? It’s surprisingly good. Daniel Day Lewis is an oil man and he hunts for oil in America and ruthlessly exploits it. Anyway, that’s largely irrelevant. Whilst walking the Alpamayo track ‘I’m …
Get ready for an intensely nerdy list. Hopefully it might be useful for others thinking about walking / cycling for long distances.
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