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The adventure started early and in the dark as do most winter activities. Forecast looked just perfect and a long weekend in the snow with friends could not have been planned better. We met at my house in Palmer, loaded up mountains of gear into my car, strapped 3 bikes onto the rack and headed north. Sunshine and great roads made for a fast drive and we made it to Paxson in no time. We geared up the bikes and rolled out. Snow was well packed and rode well which was great s

This winter I plan to embark on my first Iditarod Trail Invitational (ITI) race, my rookie year, to McGrath. This is a 350 mile race from Knik to McGrath via the Iditarod trail, human powered by bike, by foot or by ski. The race occurs following the Iron Dog snowmachine race and a week or teo before the Iditarod. This has been a goal since I heard about the race only about 4-5 years ago though, a wild idea at first that seemed impossible to ever achieve. That was about the sa

Some of you know.. only a few years ago did I really start biking. I met my wife a few years after moving back to Alaska and she, being an avid mountain biker, convinced me on a few occasions to go ride bikes with her. My old Trek hardtail, with its 26” wheels got me on my first Kincaid rides and even my first bikepacking trip. Well.. That first bikepacking trip is a story in itself and riddled with all the ways not to do bikepacking but as type 2 fun as it was, I was totally