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Our time in Tasmania was too short. We’d planned a month, but only got just over two weeks. The last several days were a wash that we spent hemming and hawing over whether to head home or not. With travel restrictions emerging just as quickly as flights were disappearing, eventually the choice became clear: it …. [Continue reading] 
photo by Eszter Horanyi Bike touring in New Zealand is hard. Or at least we’ve found it to be. Rewarding, but challenging. Partly it’s the terrain, partly it’s the weather. Partly it’s just that bikepacking ain’t easy. But it’s mostly just us that has made it hard. In past years we have traveled to …. [Continue reading] 
start of the first Arizona Trail 300. 2006 with six riders and two finishers  I’m stepping down as the ‘unofficial’ race director of the AZTR. It’s always been a loosely organized and underground ‘event’, but still does carry with it some work and weight of responsibility. For a number of reasons it …. [Continue reading] 
Salsa sent film maker / photographer Sam Needham out to the Moab desert to follow us around for a few days. Sam is a skilled bike rider and hard worker. He did a fantastic job putting together this film about the Scamp and a glimpse into our life. It’s been more than two …. [Continue reading] 
Ahh, bikepacking in NZ. Quiet 2-tracky roads in deep forest and no wind. Sometimes it is that good. Eszter lured me into not backtracking to town for food with the promise of this shortcut route, which turned out like a dream. When the dream ended, we still had nothing more than …. [Continue reading] 
From dry desert warmth, to warm island humidity. We parked the Scamp and hopped a plane around the world. Again. We hadn’t really been planning on it, but as the days got shorter and the Scamp looked smaller and smaller the choice became clear: we are fortunate to have few encumbrances …. [Continue reading] 
I think we reached the interior of New Zealand right as it finally became summer. I can’t say we saw all that much of the friendly little fireball in the sky previous to this. But we were about to learn just how strong the NZ sun can be. I don’t know …. [Continue reading] 
We rolled south from Te Anau, on the outskirts of Fjordlands national park. The pedal down was beautiful, including this lovely beach. TopoFusion users might recognize this photo, which became 2017’s splash screen on the Pro version of the software. TopoFusion is on sale this weekend, for Small Biz Saturday through Cyber Monday, …. [Continue reading] 
Queenstown. Adventure capital of NZ. It’s a funny place, and also a beautiful one. Kaitlyn was resting and getting her knee checked out while we did shorter day trips. Including the bike park. We had pretty capable bikes, so why not? Deluxe accommodation in Queenstown. The grass …. [Continue reading] 
We’re flying back to New Zealand in just a few days. That means I’m more than a year behind here. So it’s time to recount a little of our visit to those lovely little islands in the southern hemisphere. We’re going back this year because we love New Zealand — the landscapes, the people, the …. [Continue reading] 
What can one say about a summer spent in a Scamp? A summer lived without a plan? Was it a worthwhile summer? Was time spent outside? With friends and family? Adventures had? Without a plan it could go either way. Nothing might happen, a summer wasted. climbing steep …. [Continue reading] 
Moab. It’s always been a pilgrimage for me. It’s always a been a good idea, too. It was the first truly good idea I remember having. And like all good ideas, it was stolen from someone else. My best friend in 3rd grade talked about taking mountain bikes to Moab, and how you …. [Continue reading] 
Eszter and I are back in the Scamp after spending 9 weeks living off our bikes in New Zealand. It was such an experience, and we are already missing many things about those cool little islands at the bottom of the world. More on that, hopefully soon, though Ez has done a fantastic …. [Continue reading] 
Salsa was launching a new bike, the Redpoint. The plan was to find some aggressive terrain for a 3 day bikepack. Tucson wasn’t the first choice, so Eszter and I were enlisted somewhat late in the game. The challenge was to come up with a route that would showcase what Arizona has to offer, push …. [Continue reading] 
We moved ‘full time’ into our little Scamp trailer at the end of February, 2016. All our belongings fit in the van/trailer, and we were officially rent-free and on the road. Wahoo! How would it go? What would we learn? What unexpected challenges would there be? What places would we visit, what trails would we …. [Continue reading] 
We’ve been nomads for a while now. We seem to follow good weather and good adventures around the west, working on the computer in most places as we go. In 2014, we lived off our bikes, traveling north on the Continental Divide Trail. We shipped our laptops to post offices along the way. Even they …. [Continue reading] 
photo by Lee Blackwell It started innocuously enough. Lee and I pedaled a graded dirt road into the Black Hills east of Safford. The original idea was to recreate a memorable bikepack we did on a rather iconic section of the Grand Enchantment Trail some years back. We hiked our bikes a lot …. [Continue reading] 
It wasn’t going to happen otherwise. We had to do it, we had to declare an ’emergency’ and drop everything. We can’t let a beautiful spring season go by without a visit to the Gila Canyons and the Arizona Trail. We just can’t. What was the emergency? The emergency was many fold: We …. [Continue reading] 
The first photo on this blog has been, for the last month, a photo of my green Lenzsport Mammoth. The bike was leaning against a ledge of that beautiful white rock on Gooseberry Mesa. Sadly that bike was stolen soon after we returned to Southern Arizona for the winter. It had seen many a mile, …. [Continue reading] 
Moab’s wind and rain brought us to Salt Lake. It was a good time to visit with my family — overcast and cold for several days. Very little temptation to go outside and play. We played inside, with nieces and nephews, instead. It was fun. The skies began to clear over the west, and the …. [Continue reading] |
 Scott Digital Nomad, nowhere, USA Lifelong mountain biker, trail mapper and programmer. Sometimes bikepacker, sometimes runner, sometimes packrafter. I love to ride my bike, get out, and explore this beautiful planet we find ourselves on. I live in a 20 foot GeoPro Trailer, traveling about the west. Main author of TopoFusion GPS Software, co-founder of Trackleaders.com. More... Projects / Sites  
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