Bikepacking

Introduction to bikepacking – the first overnight trip

by Andy Amick

It’s time to put the theory into practice and enjoy a night camping under the stars.  For this first overnight trip, you want to keep things close to home to test your setup.  Being 50 or more miles from home when you realize your ideas don’t work as well as you imagined is not a great way […]

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Introduction to bikepacking – how to pack your gear on the bike

by Andy Amick

The previous post walked through a first backyard overnight trip to try out bikepacking.  If you are here from that post, I’m assuming you thoroughly enjoyed yourself in the “wild” for the night and want to continue on the bikepacking path. Where does all of the gear go if there are no racks? Based on […]

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Introduction to bikepacking series – getting started

by Andy Amick

This is the first of four posts in the “Introduction to bikepacking” series.  This post is intended as a very basic introduction to the world of bikepacking.  Maybe you read an article about bikepacking, or your nutty friend keeps talking about the Tour Divide race so you want to discover bikepacking for yourself. What is […]

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Current bikepacking setup

by Andy Amick

This post was supposed to be the first in the bikepacking series and introduce backyard bikepacking, but I got sidetracked.  There was family in town, work, trying to finish Jill Homer’s TourDivide book, and a few other excuses I could throw in.  The end result is I don’t have that post completed, so here is […]

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Coming up – Introduction to Bikepacking series

by Andy Amick

With the release of the StayOutThere kit, it’s time to talk about bikepacking.  I’m starting the “Introduction to Bikepacking” series that ranges from how to test out bikepacking for the first time to the details of your first full bikepacking adventure. The series will consist of 4 posts: #1 – What is bikepacking and how […]

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