Never Stop Moving is designed to be helpful to others in planning trips. It includes bikepacking, hiking and paddling trips as well as general philosophy about life and why adventure is so important to human well being.
One of the hardest parts of planning a bikepacking trip is estimating how long a day will actually take and how far you will get. A route file gives you distance and climbing, but turning those numbers into hours and days is tricky. You don't want to be too pessimistic as that will cause you to carry more food than you need. Optimism on the other hand can be a complete disaster. I summarized the day-by-day stats from four typical multi-day trips: 21 riding days in total, cove
The Great Granby is a wonderful loop in the Kootenay Mountains of BC created by Ali Becker and Mat Leblanc. Many thanks to them for their work! We rode the route in the opposite direction to how it is shown on bikepack.ca - in other words we rode it counter clockwise which enabled not only a nice flat start to the route but also finishing with a long downhill back into Castlegar. We were happy with our choice and I'll try to highlight why at the appropriate moments. We comple
Yoel and I completed a slightly modified Alberni Bam Bam (as defined on bikepacking.com) loop over 7 days from July 7th to 13th 2026; many thanks again to Miles Arbor for setting this route. It was clear from speaking with various business owners and other bikepackers that this has become a very popular route and for good reason! The modification we made was to the first section from Nanaimo to the north end of Cowichan Lake. Instead of following the logging roads west of Nan
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