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Episode 134: Kait Boyle and Kurt Refsnider: Let's go bikepacking with the best!

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Co-Host Hillary Allen discusses bike-packing with two of the best, as they explain the style of these races, which is informative to hikers and runners.

The ethos for all bike-packing races is Self-Supported.

"Generally the consensus is you are carrying your own food and water, you are not caching; the point is you can buy or obtain anything along the route as long as it is available to everyone else.  Trail Magic is OK, but you can't ask for it or plan for it."

Henry Coe State Park Perimeter Loop (CA)

Submitted by chihpingfu on Thu, 04/22/2021 - 11:31pm
Description

Route Type: A single loop.

Distance: 80 Miles (TBD)

Vertical Gain: 18,000 ft (TBD)

Surface: ??% single track, ??% dirt fire road, about 50 meters on asphalt road with little traffic around Coe HQ.

Goat Royale, Nerang State Forest

Submitted by Seano71 on Thu, 04/22/2021 - 01:58pm
Description

Background:

The Goat Loop is a 6.7km loop in the Nerang State Forest.

It is referred now to Goat 1.0.

After being established and run by a few locals it gained notoriety by word of mouth initially.

It is now a hugely popular track, largely due to a local running podcast called Racing News. (Tom Batty & Kyle Weiss) They have done multiple reports on the Goat Loop including a special that centred on the history of the Goat Loop called Goat Loop secrets. This was published on April 13, 2020.

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