Bike touring
Road and mixed-surface journeys designed around daily rhythm, reliable logistics, and the kind of stops that turn a route into a trip.
- Daily mileage and elevation
- Accommodation or camping options
- Resupply and bike transport
Human Powered Adventures
Bigger adventures start with better plans.
Personalized planning for experienced cyclists preparing for ambitious, multi-day bike touring and bikepacking adventures. Bike travel comes first, with hiking, paddling, and sailing on the horizon.
Planning service in development. Inquiries are expressions of interest, not confirmed bookings.
The service
Keep the adventure. Lose the guesswork.
Human Powered Adventures is being developed for experienced cyclists who want a thoughtful plan for going farther. The initial focus is personalized planning for self-guided bike touring and bikepacking trips in the United States and abroad. The longer-term vision includes personally led adventures and future planning for hiking, paddling, and sailing.
Two ways to go farther
Touring pace or trail grit.
The format changes, but the goal stays the same: a route that is ambitious, rideable, and grounded in real logistics.
Bikepacking
Off-road and backcountry plans shaped by surface, remoteness, carrying capacity, and realistic options when conditions change.
- Surface and terrain detail
- Water, resupply, and gear considerations
- Bailout routes and contingency options
The wider horizon
Built to grow beyond the bike.
Bike touring and bikepacking come first. Future offerings may expand into hiking, paddling, and sailing as the service develops. These are directions for the future, not trips or departures currently available.
Hiking
Multi-day routes on foot, shaped around terrain, access, shelter, resupply, and realistic daily effort.
Paddling
River, lake, and coastal itineraries considered through access, portage, conditions, resupply, and contingency planning.
Sailing
Wind-powered journeys and learning-led adventures as a longer-term direction for the brand.
The planning process
From big idea to a practical plan.
The proposed process is collaborative, practical, and tailored to the realities of multi-day adventure travel.
01
Start with the rider
Define experience, available time, destination, terrain, daily rhythm, and what would make the trip meaningful.
02
Shape the route
Develop a route framework with daily mileage, elevation, surfaces, and realistic stage options.
03
Solve the logistics
Work through accommodation or camping, resupply, water, bike transport, and relevant gear considerations.
04
Build in resilience
Identify likely pressure points, alternative routes, and contingency options for weather, closures, mechanicals, or changing plans.
Proposed deliverables
A practical trip plan, not a pile of links.
The exact package is still being developed. For the initial bike planning service, a planning engagement is expected to bring the essential decisions into one clear, usable resource.
01Route overview and maps
02Daily mileage and elevation
03Surface and terrain notes
04Accommodation or camping options
05Resupply and water strategy
06Bike transport and trip logistics
07Gear considerations
08Contingency plan
Mountain photography from the Lens archive
Travel, observation, and the value of seeing for yourself.
The story behind it
Connected to the road already traveled.
Human Powered Adventures grows from the travel stories already collected on this site, including first-hand accounts from journeys by bike and beyond. Explore the stories, or learn more about Justin.
Plan my adventure
Tell me what you are thinking.
Preview only
The planning service is currently in development. This inquiry form is awaiting email and text routing details and is not accepting submissions yet. Once routing is confirmed, it can capture interest across bike touring, bikepacking, hiking, paddling, and sailing. Sharing interest will not create a booking.
Email and text routing must be confirmed before this form is activated.