Greetings! I'm Doug. I started this blog in 2015 with my wife Joannie as a way to document some of our adventures. I started off backpacking in grade school and progressed from there into rock and ice climbing and major mountaineering. Mostly retired from mountaineering I needed something to keep my adventure bug satiated and moved into biking, then packrafting then bikepacking and finally putting it all together with bikerafting.
Joannie having an adventurous spirit, joined me on many outings since we met in 1982. (!!!) And with my retirement from big mountain expeditions has really gotten the adventure bug with our various explorations in all modes of travel from our camper and Jeep excursions to getting dirty with backpacks, bikes and rafts.
Dogs. Well of course! Our dogs have always accompanied us when possible. Sitka, Kobuk and Topaz have all been wonderful partners, always up for an adventure. The newest member of the family is Wyatt. He's the Border Collie mix you'll spot in some of the posts since 2018.
In addition to chronicling our adventures, I've included a few stand alone pages that I hope some of you will find useful. Clink the linked page or pages of interest directly below the title bar of the blog.
Please browse the blog and I hope you enjoy.
Feel free to drop us a line. Glad to try to answer any questions about bikepacking or our adventures.
Contact information:
via email: whlorders@gmail.com
Please allow for the fact that we may be out on an adventure and may not get back to you instantaneously.
Thanks - Doug
Hi Doug, Milt here, I'm the guy who chatted briefly with you last weekend when you were riding out of Striped Butte, and remembered your name from the record in the geologist cabin. I hope you don't mind, but I thought I'd see if you were publishing anything online about your trips and came across your blog. It's interesting, inspiring, and helpful. Your comments about using GAIA are very helpful to me. Thanks so much for sharing. I hope to be rolling through Gholer Wash myself soon. Milt Rayford.
ReplyDeleteHey Milt! Awesome you found my site. I'll have a write of the trip up soon. A couple days later we both rode up toward Steel Pass for a few miles from Eureka Dunes. I'm glad you found my navigation page useful. Please keep in touch! BTW, hope you got some good eclipse shots.
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