Patrick Farnsworth 
Kate Gates is one of the owners of Mulberry Gap in Ellijay, GA, the venue for this years Bikepacking Summit. Their property is located in the southern Appalachian Mountains of northwest Georgia and is surrounded by National Forest, gravel roads, and cycling friendly trails. It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that their facility is an oasis for cyclists and outdoors people.
Joe Cruz is a powerful and incredibly insightful person, which stems from his background as a professor of philosophy at Williams College and his decades of bikepacking and bike traveling all over the world. Additionally, he is an editor at large for Bikepacking.com.
Imagine putting 75 enthusiastic bikepackers together in the woods in Georgia, with no cell phone service or internet, for a weekend of nothing but riding bikes and talking about bikepacking. That’s what happened from October 4-6 at the third annual Bikepacking Summit, held at Mulberry Gap Mountain Bike Getaway in Ellijay, Georgia. And it was amazing.
On Oct. 27th 2018 I sat down with Greg Hardy of Rockgeist in his shop in Asheville, NC. What has transpired after that day can only be described as a whirlwind. On that day I started a journey that has taken me further than I realized possible or likely. However, here we are a year later and I’m sitting down with my friend Greg again.
Like most modern friendships, I linked up with Miles Arbour through Instagram. Miles is the one responsible for putting together a Q&A article that appeared on BIKEPACKING.com after my first six episodes here at Bikes or Death, sending a surge of new listeners my way… an article I’m still stoked about.
A visual followup to the interview with Rebecca Vader about her Surly Ogre and their bicycle tour through the American West.
Kurt’s achievements on and off the bike are quite impressive and my conversation with him left me feeling inspired and hopeful for the future of bikepacking on our public lands.
Two months ago, Rebecca Vader set off on her “Freedom Tour” with just a bike and her adventurous spirit. On this episode we learn where that combination leads.
In this episode Kerry Staite, owner of kLite, and I talk about everything from bikepacking lights to life lessons learned from a hard life lived.
On this episode I chat with Anna Claire Beasley and Beckie Irvin, creators of Grit Fest: a women’s mountain bike festival going down this November in Arkansas.
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