{"id":14066,"date":"2014-02-26T10:14:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T19:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/?p=14066"},"modified":"2014-02-26T10:16:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T19:16:11","slug":"winter-bikepacking-adventure-by-glenn-charles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/winter-bikepacking-adventure-by-glenn-charles\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Bikepacking Adventure, by Glenn Charles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PEO-GCHAR-0066\"<\/a>Just over a year ago, I saw some dude tweet about having “just arrived in Anchorage for a fat bike adventure.” Naturally, this peaked my curiosity, and after a short conversation, I got on my bike and met him at the intersection of Fireweed and C streets.<\/p>\n

His name was Glenn Charles<\/a>. He had a fully loaded Ti Salsa Mukluk and was intending on riding it all the way up to Denali National Park. I showed him how to get to the Chester Creek Trail, and rode with him to the edge of town before sending him on his way.<\/p>\n

We hit it off right away, because Glenn is a fellow photographer who also likes to pedal his way to adventure. He does some really cool stuff and creates great narratives about his travels<\/a>. At the time, his camera setup on the bike was a Nikon D800, three Zeiss lenses and a Sony Nex-7, although since last year he’s taken himself on quite a journey with changing up his photography rig.<\/p>\n

A few weeks later, Glenn showed up in Anchorage again and we hooked up for some quality ice biking and picture taking on the Kink Glacier<\/a>. In addition, I fed him, let him crash at my house for a few days, introduced him to some of my friends and spent quite a bit of time with him talking about camera gear and trips that we’d like to do. I even took him flying in my little Cessna and took him out to a couple of glaciers and bush strips.<\/a><\/p>\n

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In the few weeks that I spent with Glenn hanging around, I feel that I gained a lifelong friend. He has a great outlook on life and his infectious adventure-ness definitely made an impact on me during that brief period of time. He’s inspired me to keep finding ways to transform my own life into what I WANT it to be, which includes lots of travel and living outside of the normal bounds of what we often think that life is “supposed to be.” Even as a longtime pro photographer, I constantly question whether I’m doing it in a way that’s being true to myself.<\/p>\n

Although we haven’t been able to coordinate schedules for another tip yet, I keep in touch with Glenn on a regular basis and look forward to more adventure with him in the coming years.<\/p>\n

Glenn has just put up a fabulous photo essay about his two-month winter fat bike-packing adventure that he had last year in Alaska<\/a>. Check it out, he’s really a great photographer who has a fantastic eye and the ability to tell compelling stories with his words and images. I love his work. Like I said, he’s one of those guys who inspires me in more ways than one.<\/p>\n

When you’re done reading that one, check out his other stories<\/a>. There’s one about exploring a year of photography in nothing but black and white, and another about bike touring along the Lost Coast of California. Really good stuff. Worth your time.<\/p>\n

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Just over a year ago, I saw some dude tweet about having “just arrived in Anchorage for a fat bike adventure.” Naturally, this peaked my curiosity, and after a short conversation, I got on my bike and met him at the intersection of Fireweed and C streets. His name was Glenn Charles. He had a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10,14,61,89,182,149,200,92,103],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}