I guess you could call it “light touring” or “day touring” or something. I usually just call rides like this one “mixed-terrain rides.” Not sure if that fully captures it though.

Did a similar trip in Hoosier National Forest here in Indiana, only with mountain bikes, and we hit some trails as well. We set up a base camp and rode from there.

Here’’s my trip report. We certainly don”t have scenery like that around here though … wow!

When I try to get my friends to come on trips like these I always say, “Let’’s ride like it’’s 1925!” but of course, only a certain type of person is excited by something like that, and none of them are my friends, unfortunately.

My current favorite term is “Backcountry Cycling”. I think it covers the idea better than Allroad. “Rough Riders” seems popular, but it doesn”t really resonate with me.

I like Appendix C. I have quite a lot of scrap coroplast from work, if you”d like to make a couple of fenderlets for this sort of riding.

The more I see about gravity filters, in-bottle straw filters, and in-line hydration pack filters, the more I”m convinced to ditch our pumper. Just hurts to sell something so new (xmas gift 2008).

In an odd way it sort of is mountain biking, in the original fire-road sense of it. Adventurecorps is trying to use the name “Rough Riders” for this sort of thing (xo-1.org).

How about Gravel-Ramble?