A winter overnight last year with teammates Matt Acker and Evan Simula. It was only 60 miles round trip, but the forecast called for up to three feet of snow overnight. We decided to test fate. We made it to camp, but high winds and a barrage of snowfall set in shortly after and continued until morning. All we could do was laugh as we tried pushing — then carrying — our loaded bikes through the deep snow. We struggled for a half-hour to go one hundred feet, then decided we would walk together for a while to make a path, then walk back to the bikes and push them through the trench we'd made. There were a few low points, but we spent most of the time laughing and recounting stories of past adventures. Eight hours and 2.5 miles later, we found a plowed road that got us to camp, where we devoured burg- ers, beers, and maybe a little too much bourbon as we recounted our ordeal.