Every Day Adventurers

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34,000 kilometers later, RTS reaches the southernmost city in the world

Over three years ago, Goat, Sean and Jacob packed up their adventure gear, their Xtracycles and said goodbye to their families as they headed north to the Arctic Circle. Their destination? Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world, at the tip of Tierra del Fuego in South America. Their route? The Continental Divide. The “longest contiguous mountain range in the world” and the source of their journey’s namesake: Riding the Spine.

Shunning pavement at every opportunity, rutted (and sometimes flooded) dirt roads, twisty single track, and abandoned backwoods paths became their routes of choice. Traveling from sea level to mountain tops required a variety of weather gear to fight the blasting sun of the deserts and sub-zero temperatures of the arctic and mountain ridges.

Their stories fill volumes. Here’s just a snippet of their every day adventures:

long the way, they cooked their own food, wild camped most every night, and found themselves looking back on some truly epic moments: being chased by a wolf in Alaska, riding for months in snow/subzero temperatures, getting held at gunpoint by the military during a drug bust in the Copper Canyon, riding down Central America’s tallest peak, sleeping at the base of active volcanos in Costa Rica while monkeys howled into the night, exploring the Cricamola River within the Ngobe-Bugle indigenous reserve, kayaking through the Kuna Yala in Panama all the way to Colombia, dragging their bikes through dangerous landslides in Colombia/Peru, crossing over the White Mountains of the Andes, rafting the Cotahuasi River, facing the intolerable winds of Patagonia, enjoying the classic landscape of the Carretera Austral in Chile, and eventually finding themselves in Tierra del Fuego – the end of the world.

We offer our heartfelt congratulations to these men for their stamina, courage and perseverance. They brought with them not only their open minds, but also their open hearts as they encountered hundreds of cultures differing from ours.

And thanks, also, for testing our our gear, putting it through some of the worst elements on earth and providing us with valuable feedback regarding design, function and form. We enjoyed the letters, photos and visits while you embarked on this amazing journey. You guys are world class Xtracycle Ambassadors.

Welcome home and best of luck on your next every day adventure.

Read more about their epic journey.