the Great Divide

The Great Divide Mountain Bike Route (GDMBR) is probably the most popular bikepacking route in the world. Running from Banff in the Canadian Rockies all the way down through the US to the Mexican border, it’s a long and storied route that thousands of riders take on every year.

I’d wanted to ride the GDMBR for years, as it was the late great Iohan Gueorguiev’s videos of his journey on the Divide that first inspired me to take up bikepacking more than a decade ago. It was therefore a little surreal to be on the Divide myself, and an interesting experience contrasting my expectations to the reality on the ground.