November 2009
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Kelly Hogaboom & Sophie on an s24o →
I was doing a search in twitter for s24o and discovered this remarkable blog. Check out how the 7-year-old has a thoughtfully loaded bicycle — excellent and inspiring! Thanks for sharing your trip Ms. Hogaboom!
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The s24o and Instant Gratification
Another post from the summer of 2008 pulled over from our other site.
Here’s yet another curious thing about we Americans. We love things to be instant. We buy a lot of “instant” food; we get mad when our downloaded content does not instantly start; and we demand instant service from every service provider. Why is it that we don’t want our vacations and recreation to be...
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You have found the site for s24o adventuring
Welcome, human-powered adventurers! Let’s start with a reality we probably share. We read about adventure in publications like Adventure Cycling, we own camping equipment, we talk with our buddies about long trips we wish we could take…and yet careers, parenting, eldercare, or budgets stand between us and adventures. Grant Peterson of Rivendell Bicycle Works coined the term that...
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Tiny, Efficient, Cheap -- The Photon Stove
By Mark M
(originally posted in January 2008)
In my quest to lighten my load for mountainous O’s, I’ve decided to forgo my gasoline stove and carry only a photon stove.
I’ve been messing around with pop-can alcohol stoves for a couple of years now. They’re dirt cheap – you can buy one on eBay for about $20 – and Zen elegant.
Alcohol stoves are ideal for s24’s. They are very light (20g),...
Retro-post from Summer 2008 by Mark
This from the old blog after a summer, 2009 trip in Santa Barbara
Sometimes a Sub 24-hour overnight bike trip becomes much less than 24 hours. Don and I wanted to observe the Perseid meteor shower, which peaked August12th. So after long work days we rode the 8 miles and 1100 vertical feet to the top of San Marcos Road, an old stagecoach route in Santa Barbara, hard up against the Los Padres...
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Rumanations On a Ride: an s24o in November, 2009
By Nick,
We violated the technical rules of S24O but expanded its heart. Don, as if to assuage the upcoming violation of our door to site biking ethics, rode his bike to arrive at my house at 7:30AM. It gave me time to at least appear to be helpful to my wife and our two young ones. We then jumped in my car to drive to Lockwood to meet Brett, a cornerstone of many of my best outdoor trips (too...
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Three 'Kit' System
By Brett,
I like to prepare for any trip in the great outdoors….or really any trip for that matter, using what I like to call a ‘Three Kit System’. Years ago when I started traveling for business I soon realized how much easier it was to keep a dopp kit ready to go at all times. This kept me from having to assemble all the items for each trip, and made packing much easier....
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Jody Benedict shows the beauty of frugality. →
Kitty Litter Paniers. Perfect for the s24o.
Spokanarama Reports a 1st Bike Camping Trip →
Good links, description, and enthusiasm. Makes us want to look more into this hammock thing!
s24o Retro Log. Jan 31, 2009
I am moving some of our logs from the other site over to this tumblr based site. Here’s an account of Nick & Don’s Santa Barbara s24o on Jan 31, 2009.
So Long January from the top of the mountain!
From the Morning of January 31, 2009
Sweet escape. I ran the halls of the office getting things filed, gathered, ready for a quick escape for an s24o. The usual protocol is to cut...
Fall s24o with Gear Suggestions →
Wonderful pictures with this one!
s24o packing kit →
Such a nice and well-informed overview of the basics that we s24o riders ought to have.