Journal

Tour de Dirt is an annual group ride that takes place near Floyd, Virginia in the fall. The route changes from year to year but one of our local bi...

I have long day dreamed and planned out bikepacking routes but somehow never built up the gumption to go. Well, I finally gave myself the kick in th...

There are a lot of things to unravel about my experience at Grindstone 100. Or are there? Quite simply, I didn't finish. More broadly, I survived a...

It could be my middle age-ness or it could be an actual truth, but for some reason I feel like the digital cameras of generations past are still via...

A few years ago, my friend Chris and I finished the Mountain Masochist trail race, a.k.a. MMTR (read about that Type 2 adventure here and sign up fo...

The plan for this trip was basically derived from combining 2 routes that I had done previously with my friend Chris. Read about the specifics of th...

This past winter my adventure pal, Chris and I took a trip to the James River Face Wilderness near Snowden, Virginia. I'm posting this a long time a...

2020 was going to be THE YEAR. We were going to get some good family camping trips in, maybe do some additional travel, I was going to train for Mou...

A couple of weekends ago I completed the Mountain Masochist Trail Run. This race traverses 50 miles of gravel forest roads, doubletrack, singletrack a...

This fall I was fortunate enough to squeeze not 1 but 2 backpacking trips into my busy schedule. After heading up to Dolly Sods a few weeks prior, I c...