Bike Access Adventure Climbing

by | Oct 17, 2013 | Uncategorized

Recently, two other bearded adventurers and myself headed off to seek our fortune and celebrate self reliance and the Freedom of the Hills. Our bikes were laden with just enough climbing gear and provisions for about 600 feet of adventure climbing.  We set off down...

Alpine Wanderings

by | Aug 16, 2013 | Uncategorized

The last two weekends, we got up to the mountains.  First we went to Telluride with my wife’s dad and explored an old mining building at the end of a long hike.  The next weekend The Beard and I hiked a couple semi-technical 13,000 foot peaks in Lake City.  We...

Snare Lakes

by | Jul 22, 2013 | Uncategorized

Back in 2009 I rode up to Snare Lakes with frame bag version 1.  For years I’ve been dreaming of linking the Snare Lakes road in to the Colorado Trail.  It finally happened. I was armed with food and water for a long day, plus a custom shoulder strap for the...

Pink Camo Krampus

by | Jun 11, 2013 | Uncategorized

This one is too good not to share.If you’re not into pink mauve camo fabric, I just got in an order of black VX21, black V51, and have a lot of blue VX42 around...

Summer!

by | May 17, 2013 | Uncategorized

The infamous Jr year of Mechanical Engineering school is finally over.Here’s a few pictures from recent rides and a sweet new frame bag and bike recovery project. Yes, that is a turbocharger turned into a homemade jet turbine engine mounted to a barbecue –...

Australia

by | Apr 1, 2013 | Uncategorized

Look closely, there’s two Cleaveland Mountaineering frame bags on this trip in Australia.  One on a Yeti and one on a Specialized Epic.http://blog.neilennis.com/?p=3711