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It’s The Least You Can Do

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Published on March 14, 2011, by in ADVENTURES in biking, skiing, traveling, thinking, IMBA TCC.
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Advocacy isn’t for everyone. However, in times of need, advocacy can mean as little as showing up to support a mass of people that all want the same thing. Please take two hours out of your day tomorrow to show up as a biker who supports the Boulder Mountainbike Alliance’s proposal to provide reasonable and responsible access for bikes on the City of Boulder’s trails, and reverse this ban. This is the most important meeting you could go to on this issue. On January 23, 1983, mountain bikes were banned in Boulder. Tomorrow, after years of meetings, deliberations, collaborative processes and both positive and negative decisions, is the very last public input meeting in front of the Boulder City Council to basically reverse this ban. The more mountain bike access supporters who show up at this meeting, the more effective we will be in expressing our desire for equal recreation

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2011 Trail Care Crew Visit #3: Winder, GA

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Published on March 14, 2011, by in IMBA TCC.
Crazy bench cut along a gully

When: February 17 – 20 Where: Fort Yargo State Park, Winder, Georgia Who: Yargo Area Biking Association (YABA), Georgia State Parks What: Designed and built a reroute of a 700-foot fall-line section of trail that was becoming significantly rutted, through a pine forest with typical Georgia red clay. The new section maintains the climb but along a longer, 1000-foot section. Color Commentary: Our IMBA blog post for that weekend tells the story of the Gordon brothers, without whom the trails there would not exist. I loved riding there, since my favorite kind of riding is a 10-15 mile loop in different kinds of ecosystems, that takes advantages of views, access to water, and topography. For the building, we were joined by a group of 20 people sentenced to community service, which was interesting, to say the very least.

 

Freeskiing World Tour

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Published on March 12, 2011, by in ADVENTURES in biking, skiing, traveling, thinking.
Scottie jumping, Utah

My brother-in-law, Scott, competed in the Freeskiing World Tour in Snowbird this past week. He didn’t make the finals, but made the highlight reel! Which is just as important. Check out his jump (the first featured one) at minute 1:52 (wearing the blue and yellow). Pretty awesome! Day One Qualifier Highlights: Snowbird 2011 from Subaru Freeskiing World Tour on Vimeo.

 

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50 States, 50 Eats – Virginia

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Published on March 6, 2011, by in FOOD.
Car & Bike

Virgina is for lovers? Maybe. On Sunday, Virginia was for famished people. Ask your wife – when women are hungry, they are HUNGRY and not afraid to be curt about it. We drove through the state today on our way to the National Bike Summit. If we’re on a long drive, and it’s between 12 and 2, the task falls to me (as the non-driver) to Yelp and UrbanSpoon my way to a good restaurant. By the time Steve mentions food, we’re usually both pretty hungry, which doesn’t do much for inter-marital relationships. Restaurants are a crap-shoot on Sundays. Most are closed and those that are open are shi-tay (worse case scenario: baked potato at Wendy’s). I swear, a miracle came upon us this Sunday, as we approached Staunton, Va.: Zynodoa. I have never been happier to be in a high-quality, local restaurant as I was today. It reminded me

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2011 Trail Care Crew Visit #2: Birmingham, AL

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Published on March 6, 2011, by in IMBA TCC.

When: February 10 – 13, 2011 Where: Birmingham and Pelham, Alabama Who: Birmingham Urban Mountain Peddlers (BUMP), Alabama State Parks What: The local club, BUMP has been working with the land managers at Oak Mountain State Park (a phenomenal model for a state park, with recreational opportunities that would meet everyone’s needs and provide incentive for outdoor-newbies to get outside) to build more singletrack in the park, including new singletrack around the existing dirt roads that riders use. We built about 1,000 of new trail around the dirt access road. Color Commentary: I wrote all about how good of a job BUMP does in their advocacy work in my IMBA blog post. This club is a model sustainable club, and a good example for anyone wanting to increase their trail access.

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