Establishing Bikepacking Routes with Sarah Swallow

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🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Sarah Swallow is a professional adventure cyclist who develops bike packing routes around the country. When she creates a route, she takes the history, geography, and the biodiversity of an area into account. Her routes are often hundreds of miles long and lead riders past historical sites, landmarks, and diverse landscapes. In 2019, Sarah took her route crafting to the next level when she created a cycling and conservation event called Ruta del Jefe.

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0:00.0	Exciting news you guys, wild ideas worth living is now available on YouTube.
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0:34.0	Instead, Sarah is a full-time sponsored athlete who creates bike packing routes around the country.
0:40.0	It's important for there to be people to develop these routes, you know, that makes riding bikes or going on hikes more accessible to people that just don't have the time to do the research or to develop their own
0:54.4	route.
0:56.4	When Sarah goes out to create a route she takes the history, geography, and the
1:02.2	biodiversity of an area into account.
1:04.4	She also avoids car traffic as much as possible by sending riders on dirt and gravel roads.
1:10.0	Her roots are often hundreds of miles long and lead riders past historical sites, landmarks, and diverse landscapes.
1:18.0	In 2019, Sarah took her root crafting to the next level when she created a cycling and conservation event called
1:25.2	Ruta del Hefe.
1:27.2	Through all of her work, Sarah has been able to fuse together her most important values,
1:32.1	to be good to the earth, its people, and of course to have fun along the way.
1:37.1	I'm Shelby Stanger and this is wild ideas worth living, an REI co-op studios production brought to you by Capital One.
1:49.0	Sarah Swallow, welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living.
1:53.0	Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be here.
1:56.0	Our producer Jenny found you and I was like, who is this girl? How did I not know about her?
2:00.0	And you've been doing this kind of stuff since 2015.
2:03.0	But how did you discover cycling?
2:06.0	Like, when was the first time you fell in love with it?
2:10.0	Yeah, so I had kind of a strange entry into cycling. Like I actually started working with bicycles before I started riding bicycles myself. My family moved to Ohio when I was 11 or 12 and around that time I'm one of six kids
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