#cycle wild

The magical hiker-biker site at Cape Lookout on the coast, from Cycle Wild’s Labor Day Weekend Trip in 2014. All the recent improvements to the Bantam, plus the aborted cabins trip a couple weeks ago, has led my mind to think about bike camping and touring again. Last year was infinitesimally light in that department, my sole trip to Ainsworth the only entry. Anything this year should be an…

My Bantam at Crown Point in the Columbia Gorge during a bike campout last April. It took almost twenty years of touring to figure out what works for me. Last week I went to a bike touring, er, “bikepacking” meetup at Lords Luggage, hosted by Bruce B. There was a good turnout featuring people I knew and plenty I didn’t. There was talk about places to tour. And there was inevitable talk about…

Would there be a need for Cycle Wild again?

Cycle Wild trip to Milo McIver State Park, 5 May 2012. Why yes, that’s Russ Roca of Path Less Pedaled in the foreground. Why yes, I have been thinking a lot about bike camping and touring lately. It seems like I’ve talked about it weekly on this blog, especially since I just did my first “camping” trip in awhile. What can I say? I like doing it. But I realized something: all of the upcoming…