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Ride Heads Up: Trail Sabotage in Eagle, Colorado

Riders in and around the Eagle, CO area: keep your wits about you out on the singletrack, as you could encounter booby traps. Traps have been discovered on the Dirt Surfer trail. Here’s the original posting: “I want to share this alert for anyone riding Dirt Surfer in Eagle. These were found on the trail …

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Thieves Stole a Trail Machine from SORBA Mid-TN. Support Their Raffle to Win a Moots Frame

SORBA mid-TN is working to build and maintain mountain bike trails in the Nashville area, and they recently suffered a setback when their new DitchWitch trail building machine and custom trailer was stolen. The rig was stored behind a locked gate and the brazen thieves had to drive deep into the park to get the machine. …

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US Forest Service Proposes a “Cultural Shift” To Promote Recreation and Common Sense

The US Forest Service has proposed a “cultural shift” with the intent of promoting recreation and a common-sense approach to their management policies, the Denver Post reports. Their goal is to encourage Americans to use their public lands in a safe and responsible way, but to do that, a major change will need to take place in …

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Watch: How Trails Get Built – Mountain Bike the Tetons

In this short film, Mountain Bike the Tetons explains what goes into building the world-class trail system in the Wydaho region.

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One Year Later: Is Sun Valley Still Worth Visiting after Losing MTB Trails to Wilderness?

Sun Valley, Idaho burst onto the radars of many mountain bikers in the worst way possible: by losing access to miles upon miles of epic singletrack. If you were reading mountain bike news about 12 months ago, Idaho’s Boulder-White Clouds Wilderness was splayed across the front pages of news sites like ours, with headlines like …

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