The alarm went off at 4:30am, to give us the best chance of avoiding the day’s strongest winds. But the whistling coming from the window in our dark room told us that we had already failed. Oh well, nothing to do but get going anyway, and at least our early-rise means that if we’re reduced… Read more…

The only US state with a lower population density than Wyoming is Alaska. So between Lander and Rawlins lies 125 miles of nothing. Even though we’ve been setting records like crazy, we aren’t crazy enough to try for a 125-mile record, especially since our two days of descent are behind us and Rawlins sits 1300… Read more…

We knew that we had the same destination as Karrie and Fred did today, but we didn’t make any particular plans with them last night beyond “maybe we’ll see you out there…” Well, less than a mile outside of Dubois we saw flashing taillights ahead of us, and there they were! Without even trying, we’d… Read more…

Now well rested two days after our record-distance hike, it’s time to try a record-distance bike ride. After spending weeks thinking about taking the Great Divide off-road route around the west side of the Wind River range, in the end I decided that we should just play it safe and backtrack north a bit so… Read more…

Day 3 Today was a planned off-day, since we didn’t know if our legs would still respond to brain signals after yesterday’s 20-mile hike. Surprisingly we were able to emerge from the tent without the aid of any cranes or forklifts, but we certainly weren’t ready to go on a 72-mile bike ride or anything… Read more…

Day 2 Last night the sun painted the sky behind the mountains orange. This morning it painted the mountains themselves in nearly the same color. Quite a place to wake up! In our 2021 visit, we did a hike from Taggart Lake northward largely along the face of the Tetons, ending at Jenny Lake and… Read more…