Crapbrapping or Pukebacking or Poopbarning

[scrub]

I really want to head out to Lopez this summer.

[Shamp]

@scrub

I really want to head out to Lopez this summer.

Lets do it.

[Shamp]

Awesome, thanks!

[Timarchylime]

@Shamp

@scrub

I really want to head out to Lopez this summer.

Lets do it.

If y’all do it, check out the tiny ramen restaurant. You may need reservations. It’s worth it.

[Michael_McArthur]

@Shamp

…I’ve become a fan of the bagged food for camping. A couple Peak Refuel dinners and a granola breakfast and I’m good.I’m slowly discovering that a lot of a hike/bike-in spots around here are just kinda on the outskirts of the park in a clearing so hammock camping may not be the move. I’ll have to get a UL pad and sleep on the ground like a pleb.

I’m here too. Bagged food and hike-in only sites are where I came out for the precious few overnighters I get each year. Riding from home and getting a bunch of unpaved road on the ride are also becoming part of my planning. No right or wrong answers here, just trade-offs.

Am really wishing the Sidney-Anacortes ferry get re-instated in the coming years. I feel I could get all I need from the southern Gulf Islands and the San Juan’.

[Shamp]

@Michael_McArthur

Sidney-Anacortes ferry

2030 is what I read when I was learning about ferries recently.

I’ll take any excuse to get out to the San Jauns though, that’s been on my short list to see since I first visited up here.

[Shamp]

@Timarchylime

…ce, somewhat secluded hiker biker sites. So does Deception Pass.Although, if you’re up for a long ride/drive to the ferry, Lopez Island has maybe the best hike/bike sites at Odlin County Park. Mostly private, right on the edge of a bluff overlooking the water, best pit toilets I’ve ever used. No showers at the campground, but showers available a couple miles away in the middle of the little town.

DQ these are all places you can just ride/hike into and not be turned away right? No reservations needed if you came under your own power, you just kick in your $10 or whatever and take whatever space you can get?

[jimmythefly]

@Emor_please

…rested in exploring is the use of the ubiquitous tiny rural cemetery as an ad-hoc bicycle campground network. most of them are pretty isolated and feature things like trees and hills that would enable the crafty dirtbag to camp out of the sightlines of friendly corn farmers driving their F150s down the roadno water though and I’d have to be very desperate to filter water of a steam amidst corn farms

I’ve always wanted to intentionally try the strategy of stopping at the local bar/watering hole before evening time, and rustling up a camping spot from conversations had within.

Even considering this is midwest-raised white male privilege speaking, I know.

edit: for example in the shed behind the tavern in Brooklyn, WA.

[Emor_please]

One time I rode my bike there in January and discovered the bar closed seasonally. Oops. It was also pouring rain all day and all night. And I got so many flat tires I broke my pump. So I was stranded behind the tavern alone. The next morning I started walking back to town and got so desperate I rode on bare rims and destroyed my rear wheel. Also the bearings in my front hub spontaneously exploded and destroyed the front wheel. I tried stuffing the rear tire full of wet leaves but that didn’t work. Also my pants ripped massive lot so my butt was hanging out. Finally some logger bro picked me up and took me to town.

It was the worst overnight bike ride I’ve ever been on. I’m hindsight I’m a little surprised I didn’t quit bikes after that.

[scrub]

@Shamp

Lets do it.

I’m heading to Gran Cayman in early August so It would have to be late August/early Sept.

[Shamp]

I’ll be here, waiting patiently

[Timarchylime]

@Shamp

DQ these are all places you can just ride/hike into and not be turned away right? No reservations needed if you came under your own power, you just kick in your $10 or whatever and take whatever space you can get?

State parks here have the policy that they must put you some place. All the hiker/biker sites are first come, first served. Odlin Co park I don’t know about. But there is a nearby state park that you can go to if they fill up (Spencer Spit). If you take a morning ferry, it is unlikely that you’ll have a problem at Odlin. They also have one site (less desirable) that will accommodate multiple parties. Sometimes there’s a rush of bikes up the hill from the ferry to get spots, but even when that happened, everybody got one.

Nearly all of the places I’ve stayed are individual sites that are all yours, just like all the car sites. But one was different. San Juan County Park has an outstanding hiker/biker/kayaker spot that is in a field overlooking the water. But it’s really just a small corner of the field that they’ll cram as many tents into as they can. It was a little annoying being within 5’ of several.other tents, but it worked out fine and was still nice.

Moral of the story is if you want a good site, don’t expect to roll up at 7pm and get your pick. In the San Juan islands, it’s best to catch an early ferry, go straight to claim a site and then go for a ride around the island.

[Emor_please]

Another rule of thumb I live by: the worst campsite on the San Juan islands is still better than just about any other thing on planet earth so YOLO

[cousinmosquito]

@ThurberMingus

…e I try to do research I get caught up in the flat-brimification of going outside and being active. I need a trusted adult to tell me the cheapest halfways-decent shit to get. Planning on some S24Os on the prairie, have a decent selection of bags and shit that I got for grocery shopping and making it look like I work for crust on instagram, but now I need shit to put in them besides cereal and beer.

I dragged out the gen 1 Freeload last and put it on the scale. 880 grams. Not quite the heaviest rack out there. They came out in 2010, just as butt rocket seat bags were starting to appear. Pretty sure it was the first rack compatible with fullies. I’m starting to remember the pros and cons. Seat bags, have a finite amount of space, but a drybag strapped to a rack, is never really full. With the seat bag, if you have your rain jacket, leg warmers and buff packed at the rear, it’s quite easy to roll down the back to access them, but getting at the same gear that is cinched down in a drybag on a rack is a pain in the ass. I’m thinking about using this rack on my next big poopbarn so a smaller seat bag is starting to sound like a good idea for the quick access stuff.

[Michael_McArthur]

@jimmythefly

…I’ve always wanted to intentionally try the strategy of stopping at the local bar/watering hole before evening time, and rustling up a camping spot from conversations had within.

An ounce of Motorcycles diaries, and a dash of Pirsig here. It makes for some of the most memorable trips to boot.

[amy]

A friend of mine posted some photos from a bikepacking trip over the weekend that featured a couple on a tandem. I thought, isn’t there a tarcker who has done some bike packing on a tandem? Sure enough it was @arlew

[arlew]

Yup that was us! We were a PARTY of 11 on a nice lil buff creek loop

[arlew]

There was pretty constant camera action - I made a lil vid: Billy Arlew on Instagram: "🚲11 lovely humans in the woods 🏕️ Thanks @girlspitswater for organizing this fantastic bunch :) #bikepacking #buffcreek"

and so did Alex: Alex on Instagram: "My first little bikepack weekend was a perfect combo of chill & challenging. Thank you @girlspitswater for putting a plan together and for gathering a bikepacker’s dozen of awesome people to ride with!"

Who was it that you knew on the trip?

[amy]

Suzy, but i also met Jen recently. Suzy and i ride mtbs together pretty frequently.

[arlew]

That’s cool! Jen and my good friend Nick have been dating a while now, and I just met Suzy, sounds like her and her fiance shred pretty freaking hard