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Advocacy, bike shop, cartecay, cotrails, destination, ellijay, i:1:557, Trail, trail building, trail maintenance, Trails - February 5, 2014

Behind the Scenes of a Destination Trail: Bear Creek with the Cartecay Crew

If you live in the Southeast, chances are you’ve heard of the mountain bike trails around Ellijay, Georgia. With classic favorites like Bear Creek, the 162.5-mile Georgia Pinhoti Trail, and the Mulberry Gap MTB Getaway, thousands of mountain bikers travel to this corner of the Appalachian Mountains to experience some of the best trails in …

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News: Opportunity to Participate in NPS Decision to Allow Mountain Biking in Rocky Mountain National Park

Rocky Mountain National Park is considering allowing cycling on a two-mile section of the East Shore Trail near Grand Lake, CO. Citizens may comment in person at either of two public meetings: one in Grand Lake on February 11 and one in Boulder on February 24. They are also taking public comment via their website …

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News: Access4Bikes Raffling a Marin Rocky Ridge 7.6 to Raise Money for Marin County MTB Trails

When I visited Marin County, the birthplace of mountain biking, in 2012, I rode what were essentially the only two bike-legal singletrack trails in Marin County, Camp Tamarancho and China Camp… and I rode them both in the same day. By Access4Bikes’s own admission, they “face a decades long shortage of quality singletrack and legal …

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News: Bell Built Grant Now Accepting Applications

We wrote back in December that the Bell Built Grant was returning for 2014, and now the applications are open! Bell and IMBA are now accepting applications here from January 13 to February 28 (2014). Bell will again be funding $100,000 worth of trail work, spread across three different projects, each of which will fall …

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Advocacy, trail building - January 10, 2014

How To Build a Box Jump

Over the past year, my friends and I have been working to improve one of the trail systems that we ride. We took a look at all the features that were there and falling apart, and decided what should stay, what should be improved, and unfortunately, what should be removed altogether. Right off the bat, …

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