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Baja Cape Loop: Itinerary and Route Guide
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2024 Baja Divide Route Guide Update
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Bikepacking for Couples Part II: Strategies for Experiencing Joy and Managing Conflict
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Bikepacking for Couples Part I: Lost on the Bolivian Salt Flats, A Story
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This Adventure Cyclist Turned Her Love of Bikes Into a Career
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Routes that Tell a Story: Cuenca Los Ojos
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Adventures in Baja

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🚲✨ This Wednesday, August 27, I will set out on my @otsocycles Fenrir Ti to ride @adventurcycling brand-new cross-country dirt route: the Golden Gravel Trail.

Spanning 3,700 miles and 234,500 feet of climbing, the GGT is inspired by the TransAmeric
The people have spoken! @adventurecycling’s new cross-country dirt route based on the TAT officially has a name: The Golden Gravel Trail — a nod to @adventurecycling’s fiftieth anniversary.

The route is still in development, and at
Just two days after wrapping up the U.S. Classic with @fjallraven_na, Adam and I hopped on a plane to Iceland to meet with @morganmaassen and a team of product designers from @fjallravenofficial Sweden. Our mission: to use the Hoja 2026 products and
In August 2015, I closed the doors to my bike shop, @swallowbicycleworks and set out to ride 5,000 miles across the U.S. on dirt roads, following a dual sport motorcycle route called the Trans-America Trail (TAT). My partner at the time and I became
Here is a tiny glimpse of some of my favorite local places in Southwest Colorado and Southern Arizona that are available to be sold through the current provision in the “Big Beautiful Bill” for a mandatory sell off of 3 million acres of p
Two days circumnavigating the Lower Dolores River Canyon aka Colorado’s best kept secret. How lucky we are to have access to such an incredibly mesmerizing place in the Four Corners. 

More on this route and special/complicated place soon!

Spe
I’m excited to announce on World Bicycle Day that @fjallraven_na and I will be heading back to @sbtgrvl this June.
 
In a time when nearly every day marks some kind of holiday, I was surprised to learn that World Bicycle Day was only offic
Nine years ago, I flew to Durango, CO, to meet up with @ultraromance and Adam for a week+ tour to Emporia, Kansas, for the 2017 edition of @unboundgravel. I was in charge of the route and plotted us straight over Elwood Pass out of Pagosa Springs, in
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Sarah Swallow's Logo by Mary Lytle

February 04, 2021

After years of back-and-forth and putting it on hold, Mary and I have finally landed on a symbol that represents the many different and ever-changing roles I play in my profession. Not only does this image represent me, but it also depicts connection; to the iconic Mustang Mountains that have inspired so many of my projects and collaborations, to making connections through linking roads for routes; to using those routes to connect me to self and my journey in life, and to making connections between people and places. 

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