Nathan Ward from DirtWorld.com has been on a few Singletrack Tours and he has some great advice following his article on how to Mountain Bike Tour on SingleTrack.

Via: DirtWorld.com

Darkness was dropping like fate’s hammer as my friend Brad and I pedaled furiously toward a distant trailhead. Just before dark we finally realized that we were waiting at the wrong trail and to catch up with our food and sleeping bags we needed to cover 6 miles of technical singletrack in record time. Despite already spending seven hours in the saddle, we pushed pedals as fast as our weary legs would turn.

We made it only half-way before it was officially dark. We stumbled and pushed another two miles until the air was black as coal. I waved my hand inches in front of my nose and couldn’t see it at all. Trying to feel out the trail with our feet, we found ourselves constantly off-route, running into trees and stepping off little ledges. Convinced we would eventually reach our gear, we continued, risking becoming lost or walking off something big.

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