We got some big Kelty thing for car camping when we moved here with a huge rain fly porch. I thought it was stupid at first (and after setting it up I still thought it was kinda stupid), but then it rained a bit and we chilled in our chairs and watched the rain while staying dry and I was sold.
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Seems like the only surviving criteria are poles below a certain length to fit in bags…Nevermind fitting the haystack-sized tent ball itself.
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Yeah I also dig those tents for car camping with toddler. Like the two room one seems so nice for having him go to bed early in one area and allow us to go to bed later in the other. Of course it does nothing to assuage my fear of him being taken by wolves in the middle of the night.
Tell me about this, it looks so cool. I followed the live tracking for a bit but not very closely.
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i never really did a write up for this one, but it was fun, beautiful, and hard. singlespeed wasn’t really a good choice because there’s so much flat stuff at the start and end.
i slept for 4.5 hours after the first day, right before the big juniper ridge hike a bike section. juniper ridge was super cool and i hit it right at sunrise. pedaled through the mist on the approach and then hiked my bike up above the clouds on the ridge itself.
then i rode for 26 hours straight and got really paranoid about cougars as i approached cougar rock right after dusk. at one point i was pushing my bike up hill and turned around and saw a big branch swaying without any wind. pretty sure it was from a cat that had just jumped out of the tree? but i was also a little delirious. my second day ended up being like 187 miles with 18k elevation gain. i finished 8th overall, 2nd singlespeed, right at 46 hours on the dot.
cool route! would be great as a 3 or 4 day tour, though you’d have to be a bit more mindful about resupplies that way.
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I got delirious once after riding for over 24 hours. Was super trippy, but nothing can kill you here, except cars.
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it’s a funny feeling for sure. after a day or two of replacing sleep with caffeine, i definitely tend to get pretty paranoid
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yep! i ditched the seat pack for the race though.
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wow 
@amy I don’t remember where the thread was but there’s a Tumbleweed rack on the fadavist
https://theradavist.com/bazaar/item/VFAtTUiA6lkLlFWGAcUV
i already got one!
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Anyone who speaks legal
https://subscriptions.garmin.com/legal/TC_GARMIN_SUBSCRIPTION_SERVICES_INREACH_PERSONAL
please translate
In classic poopbarning mishaps, my sleeping pad started leaking again at the inflation valve (where the pad material is glued to the plastic valve) and didn’t catch it until I was already ready to snuggle up into my tent, so I spent a dreadful night attempting to reinflate it every couple of hours hoping i could fall back asleep again before it was totally empty.
Anyway, that sucked. So glad we just had an easy cruise back to the cars today.
Got a solid +11 recharge according to my watch (+30 is normal for an average night’s sleep for me).
First day was a 35 mile railroad grade climb and I’m out of shape so it was pretty miserable. But we ended in a town, got food, and got to camp with plenty of time to settle in.
I liked the rack set up. Forgot to take any photos of my own bike though.
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The night I ripped up a bunch of tall grass and put it under my deflated air pad was one of the best nights of sleep of my life.
looks so beautiful! rabbitbrush is popping off. where’d ya go?
We did the phantom canyon to shelf road loop, starting and ending in Cañon City, so we did all the climbing on day 1 and camped below cripple creek.
We were planning a completely different route, but the weather looked rainy almost everywhere else in Saturday.
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I thought that looked familiar! did you get chased by the sheep dog on shelf road?
No. We heard some loud dogs barking but they were uphill from us. Maybe too far up to chase us in time.
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Western us is so cool. I gotta get there sometime.
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