Snail Fest 2026!

November 3, 7–9:30pm at Free Cycles
$0-10 suggested donation at the door
OPEN TO ALL!

🌟✨ SNAIL FEST IS BACK! ✨🌟

Join us for a community bikepacking film festival and fundraiser celebrating trans, non-binary, gender-expansive, and women riders with short films, raffle prizes, limited edition merch, and more!

💥 SNAIL FEST IS OPEN TO ALL 💥 and is a great way for folks to learn about what we’re doing in the Missoula community — bring your friends, family, and neighbors!

💖 SEEKING VOLUNTEERS 💖 Support making this awesome + huge event happen! Please let us know if you’re able to volunteer, we have lots of roles to fill. Plus, volunteers get 5 free raffle tickets!

⛺️ DIY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS ⛺️ In addition to our pro film block, we want to showcase the wonderful bikepackers right here in our community! If you’re a snail (trans, non-binary, gender-expansive, or woman rider) and you went bikepacking this year, we would love to see a lil’ DIY reel-style video from you. Show us your bike joy, your sillies, your giggles, your flat tires, your hard days — whatever backpacking looked like for you this year.

Videos can be up to 2 minutes long — once you’re done, just upload your video to Google Drive and share it with slowspokes.mt@gmail.com. Folks who submit a DIY video will also get 5 free raffle tickets!

DM or email us any time with questions. We hope to see you on the 3rd!

Slow Spokes Overnights

Who can go on an overnight?

Any trans, non-binary, gender-expansive, and women riders are welcome to register for our overnights! We give preference to those who live within Missoula County, as it’s our intention to build a community around bikepacking here — we want folks to get to know each other and hopefully make some bikepacking buddies! You don’t need to have any experience or your own gear to join us on an overnight.

We host a Gear Library Night a few days before each overnight so folks can come by and get geared up.

The Lottery System

To be as equitable as possible, registration for our overnights is done through a lottery system. Preference is given to first-time bikepackers for beginner overnights. Lotteries open ~5 weeks before each overnight; participants are selected after the lottery closes one week later.

What to Expect

Our ethos is simple: we’ll meet you where you are, make no assumptions about your experience/desires, practice consent, and we’ll help you however we can. Check out our Ride Support Guide to see some of the ways we’ll support you on the overnight.

Before the overnight, we’ll send you all the details you need to be prepared including our recommended packing list, the route/itinerary, and specifics about resupply, weather, and food.

We meet up at a central location, have a ride safety talk, then ride as a group to camp with snack breaks along the way. Once we arrive at camp, we talk about bear safety, camp orientation, then set up tents and eat dinner! In the morning, we break down camp and ride back to town as a group.