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Thank you all for doing this Dirty Grande Urban Slasher 100ish. This is a very loose unorganized group trying to ride as much singletrack as possible in Anchorage. We have a such a great trail network in town and we only scratched the surface. Super fun to see a lot of familiar faces and meet new folks. We are young in Anchorage!
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Family time is best spent on two wheels - especially when the views are this good. Here are a few more clips from Eric's 4 day 3 night trip up in Denali National Park.⁠ ⁠ For several years, the second half of the roughly 100-mile route leading to Denali National Park has been inaccessible to buses and vehicles due to a slowly moving landslide at Polychrome Pass. Cyclists can only navigate this area via a 5-mile detour across gravel bars and glacial streams - which only makes the adventure even sweeter!
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Last week our owner Eric got out for a sweet solo trip out of Phoenix on the #queensransom bikepacking route. 250 miles in 5 days with 4 nights sleeping under the stars. Round trip from the Phoenix airport using the light rail system and no other lodging or rental car. Pretty awesome! Loads of AZ singletrack and the famous Picketpost to Gila River section of the AZT. Thanks to @schillingsworth for putting this route together!
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FROM THE ARCHIVES! Our founder Eric, a bit damp, 25 years ago on the 1,000 km Carretera Austral in Chile. Frame bag #001 and a bunch of stuff strapped to the back. Aside from the 3x8 drivetrain this setup is not much different than what’s used today. “I learned a lot on this trip, I had 2 nights where my mid blew away… I was wet most of the time, but I was young and durable so who cares right?” Classic.
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𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 & 𝐄𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞 begins February 1st!                  This is 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝟐 of a “this trip was made possible by ...” series to illustrate how the tools in 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 & 𝐄𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞 have made my outdoor work and play successful. More information can be found at triplepointtraining.com.                𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝟐. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐨 𝐇𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 — 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐫-𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥-𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐲.              I first visited the Nulato Hills with @captainswallowtail in the late summer. We biked ridge crests and struggled to find water. We ended up using our shelter for catchment and cloth to absorb water from leaves in the fog. We turned around due to slow progress.            I returned to the Nulato Hills with @sarahmhistand the next summer. We timed our trip based on Sentinel 2 satellite imagery. I flipped through the May and June imagery to identify when the snow melted off of the ridge. Our timing was perfect and we had easy water access throughout the trip. Other aspects of the trip kicked our butts, but at least we had easy water!               #triplepointtraining #tripplanning #startandendathome
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A haphazard glamour shot of a bike that deserves better, but it is actually just a tool that takes me places and I don’t find much time anymore to take pictures of myself or my bike—as we are the fish in the water and I really enjoy swimming. Almost ten years with this @meriwether.cycles frame and I wouldn’t change a thing, most of all not the color. I wouldn’t make it longer, lower, or slacker—I’m enough of a slacker as it is. The color is Antique Pink, I call it Antique Rose, officially RAL 3014 if you visit your local powdercoater. Eight years with this prototype @revelatedesigns framebag, with a zipper to prove all other zippers wrong. I used to kill framebag zippers in six months, year after year, until this ultra-low-tech zipper design that keeps the zipper zipping forever and ever. This bag predates every current Revelate framebag in production, and it still zips and rips! And carbon rims to last a lifetime— these rims have been re-laced 3 or 4 times each, to accommodate changing hub standards, preferential upgrades, and other necessary rebuilds, such as to replace corroded nipples before this trip. Different hubs, new spokes and nipples, countless tires, but the same carbon circles from one whole decade ago. I blame @kvn_boy_wonder for this. I’ve now been saying this for ten years, but “metal bikes, carbon wheels”.
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Day 82 13,255 Miles (21,332 KM) So special to start the next stretch from my hometown Anchorage, Alaska. Back in the mountains with long days, the miles sure felt easy. Thanks to Greg at @speedwaycycles for rebuilding my bike and to everyone for the warm send off. After four days without cell phone reception on the Cassiar Highway, we’re back through more populated areas and should be arriving in Vancouver in four days. Video by @rugilekaladyte
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Today was the GRIT sesh at @revelatedesigns HQ 🙌 Revelate really hooks it up— cookies, gas tanks, feed bags, and fresh logos heat transferred onto t-shirts. It’s pretty much what dreams are made of! The hecka fast sewing machine demo and dog piling on the couch are always a hit. Thanks a million for having us and supporting this crew, Revelate team!!
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Faces of the 2024 Alaska Mountain Wilderness Ski Classic. 1 of 3.
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Hey there! I wanted to reach out on behalf of @gnarcy.ambas. We've got some awesome jewelry lined up, and I reckon you'd be the ideal candidate to rock our latest collection of tough accessories! If you're interested, we'd love to hook you up with three pieces on the house! Yup, you read that right – absolutely FREE! Just shoot a DM over to our main account @gnarcy.ambas, and our guy Shawn will sort you out pronto! But hey, don't sleep on it – spots are filling up fast, and we'd hate for you to miss out on the action! Cheers, mate! 🤙 ‎ 👉 @gnarcy.ambas 👈
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Dog reboot. Koven & Lucy - June 2021. Yukla and his (unnamed sister) - January 2023. Eric & Julie got Lucy around the same time we got Koven & they were together their whole lives (14 years) - and they just adopted a Yukla’s sister. Lots of life changes in the past 14 years - looking forward to the next dog chapter. 🐕🦮🐩🐕‍🦺🐾🦴🦴
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I love how this one turned out. Next time I’ll try to get skylines to match up.
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