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In October 2020 I headed to the Utah desert for some backpacking, mountain biking, and bikepacking. The end of my trip finished with a 3 day bikepacking trip on the Stone House Lands Loop route. The route was beautiful. Big thanks to Seth Kruckenberg, Patrick Hendry, and Neil and Lindsay Beltchenko for developing this beautiful route and to for publishing the route. Doing the trip in 3 days was the right amount of challenge for me. I didn't hit all the little detours on the route and as you'll see in the video I cut off a small section at the end.. I underestimated the terrain, and probably slightly overestimated my fitness. If I were to do the route again here is what I would do differently: - Carry more water - Cache more water - Bring a filter - Run slightly larger tires. Maybe somewhere in the 2.6 - 3.0 range - Bike was fine but if I did it again i'd probably take my Surly Karate Monkey and leave on my front suspension. That isn't necessary but there were some rough spots in the
