Having completed three laps around the Baja Cape, I wanted to create a dedicated resource for those tackling the Baja Cape Loop. Alongside my 2024 Baja Divide Route Guide Update, I’ve assembled the following resources for the Baja Cape Loop, starting and ending at San José del Cabo Airport:

Using Pat Boyle's updated 2023 GPX file, I updated this multifaceted Ride with GPS resource for 2024. This includes Nicholas Carman's original waypoints augmented by my favorite POIs compiled from my experience riding the complete Baja Divide one and a half times, the Cape Loop three times, and revisiting multiple sections over my seven trips to Baja California over the past nine years.

A route shaped by landscape, conservation, and context - exploring how the places we ride through hold deeper stories beyond the miles.

A high-altitude bikepacking journey through Peru’s Ausangate region, combining route guidance with reflections from riding through remote Andean landscapes.

A short escape into the Chiricahua Mountains, combining riding, landscape, and time spent off the grid.

This story explores how cycling can be a tool for deeper awareness - not just of landscape, but of the environmental, political, and humanitarian realities that shape it. Through the Sky Islands Odyssey and Ruta del Jefe, I share how riding through the Arizona borderlands changed the way I think about route building and responsibility.

A recap of a four-day ride through the Sky Islands of southern Arizona, where a group of WTF Bikexplorers came together to camp, ride, and build connection through shared challenge. What unfolded was a reminder of how meaningful it can be to move through a landscape in community.

A high-alpine bikepacking ride through Colorado’s San Juan Mountains, where rugged dirt roads, mining history, and 12,000-foot passes come together in one unforgettable loop. This story guide blends route details with the experience of riding through one of the state’s most dramatic mountain landscapes.

A multi-day ride from the city of Oaxaca to Mexico’s Pacific coast, traveling through mezcal country, Indigenous mountain villages, and the Sierra Madre del Sur before descending to the beach at Zipolite. This route guide captures both the practical shape of the ride and the richness of the places along the way.

One of the most spectacular sections of the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route, this ride links Whitefish and Banff through remote wilderness, river valleys, and the dramatic peaks of the Canadian Rockies. Expect demanding terrain, wildlife, and the kind of scenery that makes every hard mile feel worthwhile.

This Montana loop threads together old-growth forest, glacial lakes, car-free dirt roads, and some of the wildest riding in and around Glacier National Park. It is a route that balances beauty and solitude with the constant awareness that you are traveling through true bear country.

A ride through Central Oregon’s forests, high desert, and geologic oddities, linking old mining country, ghost towns, and the Painted Hills. This story guide follows a route that feels approachable in distance but rich in texture, history, and changing terrain.

The Trans-America Trail is a 5,000-mile off-road crossing of the United States, originally built for dual-sport motorcycles but fully capable of reshaping a cyclist’s understanding of distance, hardship, and the country itself. This story guide introduces the scale, terrain, and spirit of the route.

A story from the first grand depart of the Baja Divide, where a large group of riders set out across Baja California and quickly splintered into smaller stories, shifting alliances, hard-earned lessons, and unpredictable adventure. It is about the chaos, beauty, and shared mythology that form around a big route in its earliest days.

A vivid account of riding the Trans-America Trail by bicycle - a 5,000-mile dirt route across the United States that demanded water strategy, adaptability, and a willingness to embrace discomfort. More than a route story, it is a portrait of backcountry travel at its most immersive, where hardship, solitude, and human generosity all become part of the landscape.

After closing our bike shop, my husband and I set out across the United States on the Trans-America Trail, trading stability for uncertainty and dirt roads for the lives we thought we were supposed to want. This story traces how that journey reshaped our sense of work, freedom, and what it means to build a life around the bike.