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Welcome to Rugged Family Adventures, a unique blog here for you to explore. Spending time together as a family in the great outdoors has added such value to our lives, and we love having the opportunity to share our passions and thoughts with our loyal readers. We hope this blog inspires you to get outdoors too! Read on, and enjoy.

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Day 14 7/16/21

With our hearts and our bikes light, we got an early start and we were pedaling by 6.30 to beat the heat. Before we knew it we were...

Day 13 7/14/21

How a day ends out here can be so different from how the day transpired. The morning was a 6 am wake up and pack and over to the...

GDMBR day 11 7/12/21

Segment: Ovando to reservoir lake camp Distance ridden: 28 miles Elevation gain: 3,000 feet After a great sleep at the Ovando in. We...

Day 12 7/13/21

At 5 am the rain started and I quickly scuttled out to closes panniers, collect clothes, and stake out the vestibules. We have only seen...

Day 11 7/12/21

A really great day. I struggled to not wake everyone up too early this morning but by 6 am I was moving around and we all started to get...

GDT day 10 7/11/21

Segment: Seeley Lake to Ovando Total distance ridden: 28.5 miles (26.5 trail miles +2 miles from Seeley lake back To the route)....

Day 10 7/11/21

A 6 am breakfast at the diner and fast departure to beat the heat. Smoke from the fires were all around us but we were all ready to move...

Day 9 7/10/21

Wow! What a campsite last night! Loons calling across the lake at sunset and sunrise. Fish rising and jumping. So scenic! Another 3000 ft...

Day 8 7/9/21

Early morning again with coffee and grits. On the bikes again at 7.15, which seems to be our starting time. Some fast and fun grassy...

GDT day 7 7/8/22

Distance ridden: 20 miles Elevation gained: 2,300 feet Segment: cedar creek informal campground to stealth campsite at Cold creek lakes...

Day 7 7/8/21

Swan river was a nice ‘informal’ camp right on the river. Just a classic primitive campsite. With the cold river, we woke up with a fair...

GDT day 6 7/7/21

Segment: Big Fork, MT to Cedar Creek campsite Miles ridden: 37 total Cumulative trail miles: 154 mile Elevation climbed: 3,800 ft The...

Day 6 7/7/21

Another early rise to try to beat the heat. I was up at 5 and started coffee and getting thing collected. The rest of the crew started...

GDT Day 5 7/6/21

Zero day in Big Fork. Yesterday evening we realized that we’d made a significant miscalculation in the plan for today. We only looked at...

Day 5 7/6/21

Zero day today. We all slept in this morning ( me until 6 am and Sara until 9.30!) then packed and headed down the road for breakfast. We...

GDT Day 4 7/5/2021

Segment: Whitefish,MT to Big Fork, Montana Distance traveled today: 44.4 miles total Total trail miles: 122 miles We headed out of our...

Day 4 7/5/21

Good night sleep in a motel 6 quality with aspen highland pricing! Up early for a 44 mile stretch to Big Fork. Mostly flat but it all...

Day 3 7/4/21

People sure were wooping it up for the 4th last night! Some very loud and excited folks showed up late at night but thankful settled down...

Day 2 7/3/21

We are already loosing track of the days! We keep wondering what day it is, what day tomorrow is, what day will it be when we get in to...

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