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“The hardest thing about trail building is getting permission.” So says Jim Jacobson of Forest Knolls, CA. And he should know. Jacobson has been building trail in these parts for more than 30 years and is responsible for Tamarancho, Big Rock Ridge, Endor (flow trail at Tamarancho), and many of the trails at China Camp …

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“The hardest thing about trail building is getting permission.” So says Jim Jacobson of Forest Knolls, CA. And he should know. Jacobson has been building trail in these parts for more than 30 years and is responsible for Tamarancho, Big Rock Ridge, Endor (flow trail at Tamarancho), and many of the trails at China Camp …

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Just as relocating from Wyoming to North Dakota proved to be a real challenge for a brand new mountain biker in 2001, a later move in 2006, from Montana to the nation’s capital, would also throw me a rather unpleasant curveball. While my eventual residence in Fairfax County sat nicely in the middle of a …

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Just as relocating from Wyoming to North Dakota proved to be a real challenge for a brand new mountain biker in 2001, a later move in 2006, from Montana to the nation’s capital, would also throw me a rather unpleasant curveball. While my eventual residence in Fairfax County sat nicely in the middle of a …

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According to the Google, gentrification is “the process of renovating and improving a house or district so that it conforms to middle-class taste.” It’s a popular term that’s been thrown about a lot lately, especially as many millennials choose to make their homes in urban areas all around the United States (though that may be …

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