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Email works really well. You can do attachments. You can send it at your leisure, regardless of time zones. You can work on it and craft your missive over time. Do it, email us.
Calling us is great too because we WANT to really hear you and this way we can really do that. We love inflection, subtlety, tone, all of it. Pre-emoji vibes are the best. Feel free to ramble. FTR, we may (and probably will) publish your VM if it’s good. So make it good!
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More than reliable transportation or a destination or extensive provisioning, any Performance Journalist™ worth their salt requires for success in any endeavor or pursuit only a quality Wool Blanket. Wool blankets can be fashioned into a jacket, as in a capote, or a cloak or cape. They can be used to wrap and therefore protect your valuables during travel as well as camouflage said valuables regrettably but necessarily left overnight in a car in a dimly lit motel parking lot. In place of an otherwise useless cotton towel pre-and-post hot spring, swim hole, hobo slap, etc. As a bedroll, a napkin (albeit an oversized napkin), a pillow, a sack or makeshift bag, a brightly colored and nicely delineated picnic or lunch spot, for love-making, in defense against nearly feral or overly habituated animals, a lightweight saddle alternative, fire containment and for bivouacking and/or enhancing an otherwise primitive shelter. For wound care and poultices. Protection against the elements like dust, wind, direct sunlight, etc., as well as volatile and/or tempestuous weather. Insulation be it fixed, semi-permanent or temporary. To appear Period Correct if which period is the whole of the 1800s. A blanket and/or ad-hoc burrito-style mummy bag. And finally, if need be, they can be soaked in various nutrients, broths, herbs and tinctures for later oral or topical application.
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Daniel PasleyFounder, Editor, Contributor, Blogger
Kevin BrownPublisher, Web Editor, Interneter
Justin BalogCinematographer, Video Editor
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THE SPECTACLE OF ROAD RACING→ Professional 🚴🏼♂️ is the finest, most beautiful, most relevant sport in the world and for many that’s as complicated and/or nuanced as the whole thing needs to get. But for us, for MFS, racing is more profound and, frankly, more interesting than a simple display of competition and speed. In service to this core belief which, here and now, we submit as a Universal Truth, we created an episodic multimedia documentary and contemporary study exalting Road Cycling for ALL that it is: ✨The ✨Greatest ✨Spectacle ✨On ✨Earth ✨
EXPLORATION, ENGAGEMENT, EDUCATION→ In partnership with NASA and the US Military this a reboot of Lewis & Clark. Our mandate: Explore, Engage, Educate. Our POV? Our modus operandi? Our raison d'être? D-i-s-c-o-v-e-r-y, discovery. From pseudo anthropology, interpretive cartography, field observations, illustrations, typologies, catalogs, terrestrial vs. galactic and bicycle-/non-bicycle-based adventure to Shackleton, Darwin, Captain Cook, we are the Corps of Discovery. 🌕🚀🚁🚲🛶🌍
THE CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF OTHER→ We are Cultural Anthropologists and Sportsmen compelled into the Wilderness to explore, document and publish a lasting and meaningful record of our experiences there. Through a collection of fictional and non-fictional multimedia we endeavor to understand and relate those people, places and pursuits the purview of Yonder. What is our purview? All things other. ///// Edges, Frontiers and Margins. Nerds & Warriors. The DTF. The Salty. W E 💖 O T H E R.
Recounted in a list of individual, distinct orders/purchases made in the first meal and consumed in a single session after the conclusion of the previously described trip.
COFFEE, HOT CHOCOLATE, COCA-COLA
BACON EGG AND CHEESE OMELETTE
TUNA MELT, SUB SLAW (FOR CHIPS)
HASH BROWNS
BISCUITS AND GRAVY
CHOCOLATE MALT MILKSHAKE
GAS STATION GUMMY BEARS
A SELECTION OF EXCERPTS FROM THE PRE-TRIP EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE
I am IN. Mule trials are known to be mellow with easy inclines because as you all know mules have a hard time climbing hills so this should be a cake walk. I look forward to shaking hands with each and everyone of you at Interbike.
– KYLE VON HOETZENDORFF
I have been scratching my head trying to find something unique, rustic, challenging, a little Lewis and a lot Clark type trail that will be awesome. May be the dream trip, may be the death march, I guess its the company of the dudes that creates that outcomes.
– DAVID MARCHI
Can we meet up before the trip at least once? We can bugger off to a corner, slap hands, and draft very informal lists of what we’ll each bring so we don’t end up with nineteen saws, seven sticks of dynamite, two kitchen sinks and a bunch of racquet balls?
– STEVIL KINEVIL
A CATALOG OF MISADVENTURES
18 Things That Happened in the MSOJ
Illustrations by Chris “Rally” McNally
#1 - Ancient Mule Trail; Just Past the Trailhead, Day One, T-Minus 101:31:03
Takeaway: Confirm beta/data collected is accurate, up to date, and relevant so that your plan, skills and equipment are relevant.
#2 - Conflicting User Groups; The First Trail, Day One, T-Minus 97:49:17
Takeaway: Diplomacy is the best course with regards to on-trail interactions.
#3 - Ill-Timed Mechanical; The First Trail, Day One, T-Minus 97:12:43
Takeaway: Be careful with your things, especially right after neglecting diplomacy.
#4 - Low Average Speed; Still Miles from the First Camp, Day One, T-Minus 90:08:41
Takeaway: Be reasonable with your itinerary.
#5 - Lost; Above the Bushwhack, Day Two, T-Minus 83:53:16
Takeaway: Good maps are better than lots of maps.
#6 - Bushwhack; In the Bushwhack, Dat Two, T-Minus 83:36:51
Takeaway: Don't lose the trail.
#7A - Giving Up; Second Camp, Day Two, T-Minus 73:27:21
Takeaway: Quitting is a team effort.
#7B - Giving In; Civilization, Day Three, T-Minus 61:51:11
Takeaway: Peer pressure is also a team effort.
#8 - Extreme Hitchiking; Civilization, Day Three, T-Minus 61:01:15
Takeaway: Don't expect a taxi cab in the middle of the MSOJ.
#9 - Breakdown; Not That Far Outside of Happy Camp, Day Three, T-Minus 60:27:45
Takeaway: Maintain a wide variety of mechanical skills.
#10 - Multiple Huckleberries; Not the Highest Point, Day Four, T-Minus 41:37:01
Takeaway: Don't believe the guy who says you're at the highest point.
#11 - Hornets; Still Not at the Highest Point, Day Four, T-Minus 40;31:03
Takeaway: Watch for nests.
#12 -Double-Overhead Buckbrush; Past the Highest Point, Day Four, T-Minus 37:12:56
Takeaway: In lieu of a machete, bicycles clear brush effectively.
#13 - Doldrumbs & Malaise; Past the Highest Point, Day Four, T-Minus 36:46:50
Takeaway: Pouting won't save you.
#14 - Ancient Mule Trail; On the Way Down, Day Four, T-Minus 34:13:09
Takeaway: Sometimes nothing will go according to plan.
#15 - Poison Oak; Almost Down, Day Four, T-Minus 29:11:03
Takeaway: A little vigilance prevents a lot of discomfort.
#16 - Nocturnal Adventuring; The Last Stretch, Day Four/Five, T-Minus ???
Takeaway: Carry-a-bike is more difficult than hike-a-bike.
#17 - All Split Up; Almost Home, Day Five, T-Minus 9:57:19
Takeaway: Don't lose entire people.
#18 - Extreme Hitchhiking, Vol. II; Some Road, Day Five, T-Minus 47:54
Takeaway: Save the phone number.
