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SMD packing pods review by Jim Sutherland

SMD packing pods review by Jim Sutherland

In any one week, I can switch items of gear from one pack to another depending upon what kind of riding I am doing, e.g.  local trail riding for an hour or so on my mountain bike, longer rides away...

Bikepacking the Sierra of Montsec, Catalonia by Andrei Turro

Bikepacking the Sierra of Montsec, Catalonia by Andrei Turro

Free vacation days? Yes, please. Combine them with winter vacation days? Yes, please. Go ride and explore places that during summer might be a bit too warm?  Yes, please and that is how the traditi...

6 Years with my Lunar Solo by Andrei Turró

6 Years with my Lunar Solo by Andrei Turró

Before I started bikepacking in 2015 I had been camping and spending nights in the woods during several weekends during my late teens. I had slept on the ground under a cotton canvas tarp, in lean-...

Bike packing for bikepacking by Andrei Turro

Bike packing for bikepacking by Andrei Turro

I have been bikepacking since 2014 and my trips have been from the Artic Wilderness to the countless Natural Parks and trail networks of Finland, exploring countries like Cuba, Israel, Croatia, Ita...

Jim Sutherland's 7 Favorite Backpacking/Bikepacking Foods

Jim Sutherland's 7 Favorite Backpacking/Bikepacking Foods

This piece1, (Scottish readers will get that pun) is about what I have learned to use and enjoy from over thirty years of Backpacking and Bikepacking.  I hope that readers find that it is about var...

Jim Sutherland's Fundraising Bikepacking Trip from Land's End to John o'Groats - Part 3

Jim Sutherland's Fundraising Bikepacking Trip from Land's End to John o'Groats - Part 3

I left Braco at 8:00am after a wonderful stay where we all agreed to try to keep in touch and see one another again sooner.  With some careful navigation I managed not a Golden Hour but a Golden Fo...