Last summer while riding my bike and having a few beers at SSUSA in MI I broke my knee. It was bad and I torn and damaged pretty much every thing in the knee. I even broke a bone. This sucked it sucked a lot. My whole life revolves around bikes. I help run a non-profit bike advoc group, I ride my bike to work, and spend my weekends on a bike. Lets just say it was a very long mentally painful 7 months off the bike. Well I am back sort of. Not 100% yet but good enough for now to start doing what I love. So to celebrate this I bough myself a fat-bike and went on my first bikepacking trip in a very very long time. Plus to make it even sweeter it was a good friends maiden bikepacking voyage. I kept it fairly short 40 miles in two days and very easy. Lots of jeep roads, RR track roads, and the easy parts of the Arizona Trail. It went off without a hitch and really helped capped off a bad stretch in my riding life. We had perfect weather for two days, saw a fox which is very rare around here, and rode mile upon miles of wild flower lined singletrack. Oh and we had some good whiskey. Its amazing to be back.
Day 1
New bike same old crack gps
Blue skies for days
3 Bridges/ Gabe Zimmerman AZT in the distance.
Getting to the top of the saddle just in time to watch the sunset.
Camp time
