Lael arrived in Banff earlier this week, 19 days and 2140 miles from Anchorage, less than a month after arriving in Alaska from Israel, less than 2 months since the start of the HLC, less than a year since we … Continue reading
Lael finishes on the beach in Eilat, adjacent to high-priced hotels and the Jordanian border. That night, we slept on the beach. To catch up on the events of the HLC 2015 check out my article at Bikepacker’s Magazine, Live … Continue reading
At the restart in Arad, Lael begs Niv not to ride so fast. He is really, really strong and one of the only people she enjoys riding with. In general, she prefers to be alone. Following a muddy standstill in … Continue reading
Lael racing the local e-bikers away from the Sea of Galilee. The HLC departed Mt. Hermon April 9 at 7AM. After one solid day of riding, most riders intercepted scattered showers and increasingly unrideable roads and trails some time during … Continue reading
Skip to the fun part and leave an encouraging comment for Lael at the bottom of the page. Yes, she is racing the HLC. The event starts Thursday at 7AM. She rides and rides and rides, you know that. But … Continue reading
At 1200ft below sea level, there is nowhere to go but up. Into a stiff west wind, we depart from the gas station at Newe Zohar, at the south Dead Sea. The ascent out of this big hole, the Jordan … Continue reading
We complete a circle around the Negev desert with Ilan and Danny, connecting new singletrack from Mizpe Ramon with the now familiar HLC route from Tsofar back to Sde Boker. Moving north from Sde Boker, we eventually descend 3700ft to the … Continue reading
No culture shock, except two-thirds of every road sign is illegible, and one-third is in English. And, for the first day we don’t know the exchange rate from shekels to dollars, so Monopoly rules apply (try not to spend, but … Continue reading
Local fishermen and families looking for fish in Ship Creek during the seasonal salmon run, Anchorage, AK. I spent a full summer in Anchorage, Alaska, working. Returning from Israel in May I arrived at The Bicycle Shop the next morning … Continue reading
For sale are over a hundred small prints from our time in Israel and Jordan, mostly taken on or near the HLC route in Israel. There are scenes of camels in the Judaean Desert above the Dead Sea, images of … Continue reading
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