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    Feathertop
    Jamie
    • May 15, 2020
    • 1 min

    Feathertop

    Australia's "alpine peak". An overnight hike in June 2019. Click for a full screen experience!
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    That was Cuba: Part 2
    Jamie
    • May 14, 2020
    • 1 min

    That was Cuba: Part 2

    No, not Australia, Cuba. Another taxi ride. A break with my parents, and some time on the beach. Back to Havana, and then back on the...
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    This is Cuba: Part 1
    Jamie
    • Feb 4, 2019
    • 8 min

    This is Cuba: Part 1

    I’ve got a suitcase pressing into the back of my head, a brake lever digging into my shoulder, and my arm wrapped around one of our bike...
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    Bikepacking our own way: by bike or with bike
    Jamie
    • Jan 6, 2019
    • 2 min

    Bikepacking our own way: by bike or with bike

    I often find myself comparing ourselves to others. Comparing our journeys with theirs. Our tolerance of hardship, our fitness, our...
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    Five Weeks in Mexico
    Gabi
    • Jan 6, 2019
    • 2 min

    Five Weeks in Mexico

    We needed a holiday (from our holiday), so booked flights to La Paz, Mexico with the plan to rent an apartment in La Ventana, a tiny...
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    California Dreaming: Cycling from Las Vegas to San Diego
    Gabi
    • Dec 15, 2018
    • 9 min

    California Dreaming: Cycling from Las Vegas to San Diego

    Las Vegas. What a place. After returning our van we spent three days exploring the city, which was difficult if not impossible to do on a...
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    Further in to the red: Utah continued
    Jamie
    • Dec 1, 2018
    • 5 min

    Further in to the red: Utah continued

    A couple of days off the bikes were in order after our adventures on the Kokopelli trail. We took this opportunity to go for a day hike...
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    Swapping snow for sand: Montana to Utah
    Jamie
    • Nov 19, 2018
    • 8 min

    Swapping snow for sand: Montana to Utah

    “You don’t have to practice being miserable”. These were the wise words of Conrad, our AirBnb host in Helena, Montana. We had started the...
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    Lost air, a bear and a hunter scare: Eureka - Helena (Montana)
    Gabi
    • Oct 9, 2018
    • 11 min

    Lost air, a bear and a hunter scare: Eureka - Helena (Montana)

    After a delicious lunch in Eureka paid for by a very generous lady, it was time to head to our campsite for the night. Looking on Jamie’s...
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    The Great (snowy) Divide Mountain Bike Route: Banff to Eureka
    Jamie
    • Oct 4, 2018
    • 6 min

    The Great (snowy) Divide Mountain Bike Route: Banff to Eureka

    FIFTEEN CENTIMETRES of snow for Banff itself on Thursday - this was what a bus driver had told Gabi. Checking the forecast on the...
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    Cycling the Icefields Parkway: Jasper to Banff
    Gabi
    • Sep 24, 2018
    • 9 min

    Cycling the Icefields Parkway: Jasper to Banff

    After spending a whole day baking chocolate chip cookies and savoury muffins (we still have a terrible fear of being hungry!), we were...
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    Goodbye Alaska, Hello Canada. Goodbye Canada, Hello Alaska.
    Jamie
    • Aug 23, 2018
    • 13 min

    Goodbye Alaska, Hello Canada. Goodbye Canada, Hello Alaska.

    It seems we spend about eighty percent of each day thinking about food, talking about food, or actually eating food. We had read about...
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    This is bear country: Cycling the Denali Highway
    Gabi
    • Aug 1, 2018
    • 6 min

    This is bear country: Cycling the Denali Highway

    After camping for a few days in the Denali National Park, we stayed in a tiny log cabin in the middle of a very rocky RV campground. (We...
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    The lessons we have learnt: Anchorage to Denali and in to the Park
    Jamie
    • Jul 30, 2018
    • 6 min

    The lessons we have learnt: Anchorage to Denali and in to the Park

    We've all made mistakes. We've certainly made a few these last few days. But hey, where's the adventure if you don't camp in a berry...
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    An idea conceived, an adventure begins
    Jamie and Gabi
    • Jul 29, 2018
    • 6 min

    An idea conceived, an adventure begins

    Jamie In 2016, our friends Tim and Hetty cycled from India to England. Their stories ignited in us a burning desire for an adventure of...
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    It never rains in Scotland - Part 1 (The Cairngorms)
    Jamie
    • Jun 25, 2018
    • 5 min

    It never rains in Scotland - Part 1 (The Cairngorms)

    In a full four weeks in Scotland, I never once wore my raincoat in anger. If I had have stuck to the minimalist bikepacking ethos of "If...
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    Jamie
    • Apr 15, 2018
    • 1 min

    The pack list | Scotland

    So I found myself with a few free days, some work that I had organised having fallen through. I was on the phone to my dear mum, who said...
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    Over the High Country
    Jamie
    • Feb 15, 2018
    • 5 min

    Over the High Country

    Newly self-unemployed, this is what I had been waiting for. The freedom to take time out, to explore new places, to get muddy, dirty,...
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    The Beginning
    Jamie
    • Sep 22, 2017
    • 1 min

    The Beginning

    The first day of our adventure. 6am. I am awake at dawn, unable to sleep longer, excited about what I feel to be the first day of our advent
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    The beginning
    Jamie
    • Sep 22, 2017
    • 1 min

    The beginning

    The first day of our adventure. 6am. I am awake at dawn, unable to sleep longer, excited about what I feel to be the first day of our...
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