The trails around Lake Tahoe in California are more commonly tackled on mountain bikes these days, but the three-day adventurers from XPDTN3 don’t care much for doing things by the book.

They tackled the complete Tahoe Rim Trail on their rigid, fully-loaded gravel bikes and harked back to the days when bikes were simpler and the spirit of a off-road ride was about the places you went rather than how rad you got or how many berms were blasted.