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Dan The Man
05-24-11, 01:32 PM
I was surprised by how many of this centuries great mountaineers rode their bikes to into the mountains:
http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web11s/wfeature-biking-history
Bekologist
05-25-11, 09:48 PM
Great article, thanks!
bike touring 203487to do a few days of a little light ski mountaineering at mount rainier national park....
203488 actually skied with bike!
The current top dog bike touring/mountaineering hard man, presently, is a fella I knew years ago, Erden Eruc.
Erden in currently in a decade long Around-n-over adventure around the world, climbing peaks by human power. he rode his bike from seattle to Denali with his gear (no small feat in itself!) climbed Denali, and returned to Seattle by bike. he is now out on more exciting legs of his adventure.
http://www.around-n-over.org/pics/antipodes.gif
Around and over, a human powered adventure (http://www.around-n-over.org/)
Erden was a Seattle friend of Goran Kropp, with him climbing the day of his fall, and inspired by Goran to follow in his wheel tracks to ride and row and go by human power to some of the highest summits in the world.
zoltani
05-26-11, 09:40 AM
I really need to get some climbing gear and try out some of this bike touring/climbing combo stuff.