About SPOC
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Why self-propulsion...well bicycles facilitate many great adventures, transforming trips from the ordinary to the extraordinary. They can even make an adventure into an epic. The late Lars Olaf Goran Kropp biked from Sweden to Katmandu where he then proceeded to climb Mt. Everest before cycling home again. The coastal mountains are no Everest, but there lies an "Everest" in all of us; one could go on a trip to the corner store, commute to work and part with our car-addiction and undergo a similar challenge . Being self-propelled is about shedding off our learned automobile dependence, regardless of what activity you are engaging in. For hikers, climbers, and mountaineers, this means new challenges, new learning opportunities, and new ways of relating to our environment. Reinhold Messner, could have been describing self-propelled trips when he stated "it was a different mountain altogether- even though it had the same summit." (High Lonesome ed. J Long). So why not try going selfpropelled?
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