Racing is fun, and as much as I try to hold back from signing up for races because it’s so hard to compete with the super fast athletes, I still get drawn back in and put in my place every time. My first skimo race was no exception, but luckily, I had no illusions of standing on the preverbal podium at my local ski race. Starting in the back, behind all the high school kids and with the rest of the “casual” racers, we headed uphill to complete as many laps on the course as possible in about 1 hour. …
If you tell someone you’re headed to Roatan, blank stares and a questioning look are sure to be the immediate response. This little island off the north coast of Honduras in the turquoise Caribbean waters has not found itself on many tourists bucket lists… yet. Roatan has been a scuba divers destination since the early 90s, with more dive sites within 100yds of the island’s shoreline than I’ve seen anywhere in the world. Lucky for me, my wife, Courtney, had always knew about this little slice of paradise and we planed our diving trip here for 2025!
Hi there, my name is Zachary Kenney and I’m an adventure filmmaker & photographer. My passion is to tell stories that will hopefully motivate you to go live a more adventurous life. Whether that is to experience the view from the summit of a mountain, or wandering through a new town on a road trip. Currently based in the Park City, Utah.
Distance Vertical Gain Duration 88.4 Miles 538 Feet 8 Hours 53 Minutes Starting off our morning, the wet trail was lit up with the beams of our headlamps and bike lights with our final day on the bikes ahead of us. Finally, got the boys to start riding at 6:30 AM, my preferred start time for a big adventure. To me, moving in the dark is like free miles and free time, in that, everything you accomplish before the sun comes up feels like a bonus and somehow easier compared to starting later in the day. This made our breakfast …
Distance Vertical Gain Duration 92.9 Miles 2,224 Feet 10 Hours 29 Minutes Waking up to the predicted forecast of rain on the roof of the cabin we spent the night in was difficult pill to swallow. I’d previously completed a bike touring trip for 3 days around the White Mountains of New Hampshire entirely in the rain, and I was not looking forward to almost a century ride in the rain today. With a bit more pep in our step this morning than the previous two, we loaded up our bikes, dawned all our warm clothes, rain gear, and pushed off …
Distance Vertical Gain Duration 86.3 Miles 974 Feet 9 Hours 22 Minutes Waking out of a sleep, on a terribly uncomfortable couch, that only an entire day on a bike can put your body into, I was ready for another day in the saddle. But there were a few items to square away before we could pedal off towards Paw Paw, West Virginia nearly 90 miles away. Pat found himself carrying extra gear that was simply not useful, so he wandered down to the Post Office and shipped extra clothing and a pair of shoes. I was off in the other …
Distance Vertical Gain Duration 83.6 Miles 1,257 Feet 8 Hours 17 Minutes With grand ambitions of being in the saddle first thing in the morning, just after breakfast burritos and coffee, reality set in and we were not even close to being ready to go. And by we, I mean Ben. While Pat and I squared away everything the night before, Ben still had a litany of items to complete before we could roll away from his home in Alexandria, VA. The list included installing a new chain, mounting handlebars, installing brake levers, wrapping said handlebars, the exhausting task of mounting …
Setting out from Washington D.C. to check off my buddy Ben’s bucket list item of riding all the way to Pittsburgh on the C&O and GAP trails. We also, easily, convinced our other college friend Pat to join us. Over the 4 days, we had such a blast riding this trail and cannot recommend it enough to those who enjoy riding, scenery, history, and nature. Long days in the saddle and so much American history viewed along the way.
The C&O section of trail, that runs from D.C. to Cumberland, Maryland is a cinder gravel trail that is mostly smooth. Following alongside the Potomac, you pass through a history of this country. One where towns relied heavily on their proximity to a navigable river, or in this case, a canal to ferry goods inland from the port cities. These small towns, once wealthy from extraction industries like coal, are all a shell of themselves and depend mostly on weekend tourism from the nearby cities.
The Great Allegheny Passage, or GAP trail, that runs from the continental divide downhill to Pittsburgh ended up being mostly paved, with a handful of crushed gravel sections. Nearly complete opposite from the previous days trail of rural, remote riding, the GAP trail cuts through one old town to the next.
Hi there, my name is Zachary Kenney and I’m an adventure filmmaker & photographer. My passion is to tell stories that will hopefully motivate you to go live a more adventurous life. Whether that is to experience the view from the summit of a mountain, or wandering through a new town on a road trip. Currently based in the Park City, Utah.
Turns out, you can nearly cook an entire Thanksgiving dinner over a campfire in the Moab desert, green bean casserole and all. The turkey however, well that was deep fried. In the true spirit of Thanksgiving, a group of friends got together, inviting their other friends as well, and pretty much anyone else who wasn’t going home for the holiday. Of course, we were late to this tradition, which our friends had been taking part in for a handful of years now. Yet, somehow getting a group of 18 people to meet up miles down a dirt road on public …
If you tell someone you’re headed to Roatan, blank stares and a questioning look are sure to be the immediate response. This little island off the north coast of Honduras in the turquoise Caribbean waters has not found itself on many tourists bucket lists… yet. Roatan has been a scuba divers destination since the early 90s, with more dive sites within 100 yds of the island’s shoreline than I’ve seen anywhere in the world. Lucky for me, my wife, Courtney, had always knew about this little slice of paradise and we planed our diving trip here for 2025! West Bay …
Talk about a childhood dream come true. I still remember riding “make-believe” dirt bikes with my cousin around the neighborhood like we were on hobby horses. Of course, there was always the baseball card in the spokes of my BMX bike making the most obnoxious staccato from the back of the bike. I’m not sure how I managed to let 33 years of my life go by before actually getting the chance to ride a real dirt bike. Needless to say, flying down the dirt roads through the desert landscape of Moab exceeded every expectation I ever had about riding dirt …
