Andean Traverse — Bikepacking
The eastern Patagonian coast
Bikepacking endless steppes with violent winds and barbed fences. First start southward with a hybrid setup and a few disillusions.
Bikepacking endless steppes with violent winds and barbed fences. First start southward with a hybrid setup and a few disillusions.
Hunting for tracks above the GR and under the glaciers in light, fast yet self sufficient hikes into the Vanoise National Park.
Drawing our own bikepacking route on the shore sands and slimes. But is riding low tides and pedestrian paths worth the constraints ?
Our last struggles to arrive on time where we planned to twelve month ago. Unusual lands, a few accidents and how we have made our way back home.
Bikepacking the Andes spine across the ancient Inca holy lands. But how to stay safe up there in the middle of the storms season ?
Bikepacking high passes in balance above the barren Altiplano and the lush Yungas. At last, our first bike issues and how we have solved them.
Bikepacking the world highest and driest deserts among black volcanoes and white salars. Our first acute mountain sickness and how we have acclimatized.
Bikepacking Alps like places with strong native culture and snow capped volcanoes though. Our first hitchiking side trip and new bikepacking setups for true elevations.
Bikepacking along infinite steppes, ice fields then rain forests all in a row. But how to avoid all the entrances of the national parks route ?
Hiking faded and scattered tracks around the world southermost town between low glaciers and red bogs.
Bikepacking the southern end of the world until frozen archipelagos beyond reach. Lessons learned and second start northward.
Roaming quiet and soaked roads among the glens or what our routine was like during the year shortest days.
Wandering sinuous and frozen roads into the scandiniavian winter or how to live everyday with negative temperatures.
Hitchiking the low Baltic shore among pine forests and colorful bogs. Friends departure and last days on our way back home we left twelve months ago.
Hitchhiking westward the Gobi desert evenness and step onboard the Transiberian for days of endless Taiga. At last, our first disputes and how we have splitted for the sake of the trip.
Hitchiking the enslaved Xinjiang and Tibet provinces before crossing China where the Silk Road ends. But how to even choose our way and talk with the most different culture we have met ?
Hitchiking through infinite golden steppes and hiking among the white celestial mountains. Other travelers encounters and the reasons why we have stayed that long in the stans.
Hitchiking the divided Kurdistan province under the snow before warmer days between the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea. Our first money and paperwork issues and how we have solved them.
Hitchhiking our first ex soviet republics, the detour that led us on the other side of winter. Freezing temperatures and scalding alcohols all over the mountains.
Hitchhiking long and quiet roads along the turbulent relief of the Black Sea edge. And how we started to figured out westerners ignorance by learning the actual reality ourselves.
Hitchiking eastward along the Mediterranean shore to reach the Bosphore strait where Asia begins. Lessons learned and a few disillusions.
Crafting the website of an independant ceramic workshop. But how to showcase valuable products on sale while respecting art conventions ?
Redesigning digital tools that help professionnals to manage their stocks. But how to stand out from competition and design functions for all clients ?
Sketches against solastalgia. Change will happen, in the meanwhile, we must blame what goes wrong.
Bygone monarchs, wild chimaeras or just close people I have lost.
Upgraded lists of the current items I have curated over the years for a minimalist, versatile and lightweight setup, whatever the trip length, location or season.
Topographic maps and a few numbers about the Andean Traverse and the Silk Road accurate routes.
Anatomy of four bikepacking setups or how I fastened bags everywhere to adapt environments.
