Quintessential bikepacking
- Three days, two nights, maximum remote (away from services)
- 4x90 minute bike sessions (mostly zone 2, not excessively sweaty)
- Usually solo (with SpotX SoS)
- Starlink Mini livestreaming 4-8 hours per day
- Spring-Fall seasons (occasional, rare snow flurries)
- No need to work while on trip (other than by phone)
- No traffic (<0.1% to get to trail)
- Mostly gravel+ roads
- Mostly flat and rolling (<3% grade)
- Usually in critter-country, sometimes bears
- Occasional hills (12% grade maximum)
- Some walking and pushing up hills and through mud
- Some thigh-deep water crossings
- Regular water sources for filling and filtering (carry 2.7l + 3l filter/bladder if needed)