Harness, good reference for a climber.

Welcome ride hard.

I just have to point out that the Bee that buzzes up to the lens after you guys ride past is worth watching all by itself.  That is what you call the money shot!  A true NatGeo moment.

Thanks for sharing.

Just ordered one. Very cool.  Been blowin my brains out into my own insulpad in all kinds a Sh%$ for tooo lonng.

 

I must confess that i haven't bike packed since the 70's.  How's that for a layoff.  I have actively backpacked recently, I have participated in alpine climbing and ski mountaineering also recently.  I ride my Pugsley every day near my home here in Golden.  I am putting together a bike pack rig, mostly out of stuff scavenged from my climbing gear.  So I will get there, I am particularly interested in winter packing since that has been my legacy activity.

Regarding cycling in general, I lived and worked in Northern California for 25 years, from the Sierra to San Francisco there aren't many backroads that I have not ridden, raced on at least twice.  I worked at Palo Alto bike and was employed at Avocet in Menlo Park when product development began to mean more that hiring Italians to design and build your stuff for you, to sell to gullible americans who would buy anything with a strange sounding name. 

By reading posts on this forum I am learning how much we have progressed in our love of biking in the rough since running into Joe Breeze occasionally on Mt. Tam.  Pretty cool.  I have to admit that I thought that this whole mountain bike thing was never gonna stick.  I asked Tom Ritchie about it once when I passed his house on Alpine road with the Jobst ride one Sunday and he suggested that there were certainly places that we could not get to with our Clement Del Mundo's.  Seems that he was right.  Now my only bike has tires emblazoned with the strange sounding name "Larry"? 

Great imagery, looks like a big snake, I didn't know there snakes in PA.  Lot's of them around here too, Colorado Front Range, August is when it is hot enough overnight to keep them active early in the morning when I ride.  Yuck.

Thanks for the images.

DB