Great Divide Mountain Bike Route (Montana portion)
July 2021

Gosh, 2020. 2021... (Insert all the trite thoughts).

Quinn Brett rode the length of the Great Divide Mountain Bike Trail in less than a month. That’s over 100 miles per day of off-road, gravel, and singletrack pedaling.
Quinn is an adaptive athlete, having lost control of her body from the waist down in a high-profile 2017 climbing accident in Yosemite.
So of course she set her sights on the first big adventure since her injury: riding the length of the trail, simultaneously (likely) becoming the first adaptive athlete to do so.

Goal Zero, a brand with which I’ve partnered since 2013, sponsored her ride. While she typically rode her e-assist mountain-hand-tri-cycle with at least a couple extra batteries in her panniers, she needed to charge them each night. Goal Zero used a variety of products, including the Yeti 1500X and 3000X coupled with a number of their solar panels to provide her with clean, renewable energy to power her in the technical uphill sections where she needed to use her hands to steer instead of pedal. Watching this as I pushed my bicycle was mind-blowing. Keeping up with her was nearly impossible. It was also probably the most consecutive 100+ mile days I’ve ever had, or at least in a decade.

But why was I even there? Well, along with her friend and riding buddy Joe, she was open to my sharing the first 500 or so miles with her, starting at the Canadian border, pedaling and camping our way to the southern end of Montana.

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