Glacier Divide Backpack – Lamarck Col
For a while, I had been looking at Lamarck Col as a way to make a loop around the Glacier Divide. On some maps, it is shown as a trail. On others, the route...
Author: Brian
Backpack Dinky Lakes
In July 2021, I was interested in seeing a new part of the Sierra: The Dinky Lakes region. This is a pretty low-key trip all on trails… so this is more of a trip...
My Type 1 Diabetes Diagnosis Story
In the Type 1 Diabetes world, those of us with T1D commonly share our diagnosis stories. Everyone has a different narrative, partly because type 1 develops differently in each person. To the individual, it...
Type 1 diabetes FAQs – I thought you weren’t allowed to drink alcohol because alcohol turns into sugar!
Now that we and many of our friends are fully immunized, we’ve explored having meals with friends after a one and a half year hiatus. It’s great to be able to do this again!...
The Condor Trail (Leg One)
One day Janet and I were bikepacking some remote trails in the Los Padres National Forest and we met a couple who told us they were hiking the Condor Trail. Once we got home...
Bikepacking Death Valley – Valle de la Muerte
Janet and I have been envisioning a bikepacking route through Death Valley for a while. We wanted to try and see “everything” in the entire park – so we sculpted a route that linked...
Wandering the West Bikepack trip
In the fall of 2020, Janet and I attempted to ride the Colorado Trail. Thwarted by deep snow, we plotted a wandering route that utilized portions of existing routes such as the Pony Express...
