Enduro bike packing
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2014 9:30 pm
Bikepacking, such a nice and strange thing.
I've used all my bikes for bikepacking I own and those bikes all have their very different place.
It's taken me to many places and there are more to come.
I've suffered and hit the wall umpteen times and want to go back.
Went flat out on descends and scrawled up the ascends, freezing to the bone and sweating like a pig.
I do have a similiar attitude when it comes to enduro like mountainbaker has (http://bearbonesbikepacking.co.uk/phpBB ... f=7&t=4494), but in the end it's just one facette more of this great activity called bicycling.
Here's one of this summers' trips, showing how I interpret that sissy enduro. A highlight as it was part of a birthday present for my mate (including a self made frame bag) and on the second of three days we summited his first 3000 m peak by bike.
On 100 km biking in this region you easily climb 5000 m so we used post buses where possible to save some energy.
An easy climb...
... for an easy descend.
Into Italy...
(close to Lago di Livigno)
...and back into Switzerland again.
Good morning. A very techy descend for breakfast awaited us. Touching the valley floor we were drenched in sweat from the technical riding.
Into thin air.
Better wear a helmet here - rockfall... (was I yodeling?)
Doesn't happen often that some rocks come shooting down between me and my mate.
Rideable snowfields...
...are followed by a single track heaven.
Lai da Rims
One of my favourite descends in that region brings us down to the Val Müstair.
Bivy spot not far from the Ofenpass (oven pass), or as the locals say, Süsom Givé (uppermost shoulder).
Another breakfast downhill and long traverse sees us arriving just in time for another bus, this time to facilitate reaching the Fuorcla Funtana da S-Charl, where a marmot stood close by, hoping for some food.
Hours later we loose altitude by the second and arrive in Scoul with smiles all over our faces.
I've used all my bikes for bikepacking I own and those bikes all have their very different place.
It's taken me to many places and there are more to come.
I've suffered and hit the wall umpteen times and want to go back.
Went flat out on descends and scrawled up the ascends, freezing to the bone and sweating like a pig.
I do have a similiar attitude when it comes to enduro like mountainbaker has (http://bearbonesbikepacking.co.uk/phpBB ... f=7&t=4494), but in the end it's just one facette more of this great activity called bicycling.
Here's one of this summers' trips, showing how I interpret that sissy enduro. A highlight as it was part of a birthday present for my mate (including a self made frame bag) and on the second of three days we summited his first 3000 m peak by bike.
On 100 km biking in this region you easily climb 5000 m so we used post buses where possible to save some energy.
An easy climb...
... for an easy descend.
Into Italy...
(close to Lago di Livigno)
...and back into Switzerland again.
Good morning. A very techy descend for breakfast awaited us. Touching the valley floor we were drenched in sweat from the technical riding.
Into thin air.
Better wear a helmet here - rockfall... (was I yodeling?)
Doesn't happen often that some rocks come shooting down between me and my mate.
Rideable snowfields...
...are followed by a single track heaven.
Lai da Rims
One of my favourite descends in that region brings us down to the Val Müstair.
Bivy spot not far from the Ofenpass (oven pass), or as the locals say, Süsom Givé (uppermost shoulder).
Another breakfast downhill and long traverse sees us arriving just in time for another bus, this time to facilitate reaching the Fuorcla Funtana da S-Charl, where a marmot stood close by, hoping for some food.
Hours later we loose altitude by the second and arrive in Scoul with smiles all over our faces.
