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Your first bikepacking trip, for women

A first bikepacking trip should be short enough that a bad day is easy to come back from.

Use the bike you already ride, and sleep close to home.

The stories below are the ones women in the group share before that first night.

A woman sets up a small tent beside her loaded bike at an evening camp near a wooded trail.

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A woman in a yellow fleece crouches to stake her orange tent at a forest camp, her loaded bike beside it.

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