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A Dozen Cosmic Climbs to Attempt in 2017

We recently published a list of some of mountain biking’s greatest descents, because it’s what we all look forward to. Gravity is fun… well at least it’s fun when our wheels are pointed down. But what about when out wheels are pointed up? Then gravity’s not so swell, is it? Ahh, but it can be. Mountain biking …

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Trail Runner Impaled By a “Deliberately-Planted Spike”

We’ve reported about trail booby traps many times in the past, and often the argument has arisen in the comments section that spike-based booby traps are likely to be much more dangerous and damaging for hikers or horseback riders than they would be for mountain bikers. This generally-accepted hypothetical argument has unfortunately moved from the realm of …

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Bikepacking to Work: Turn Your Weekend into an Adventure

What do you do when you have to work on your day off? Make an adventure out of it, of course! Suddenly, it hardly feels like work. This past year working with the Forest Service, I worked a full-time schedule of four 10-hour days per week. A couple times I had to work on a …

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Living it Up Above Laramie: Riding Southeast Wyoming, Part 2

While the area between Cheyenne and Laramie is an island of terrain in the midst of an endless prairie sea, the area to the west of Laramie is home to a major mountain range, which also hosts expansive, unique, and highly-entertaining mountain biking. After familiarizing myself with all the nearby riding between two of Wyoming’s …

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Wind, Rocks, and Rowdy Singletrack: Riding Southeast Wyoming, Part 1

Between Cheyenne and Laramie, Wyoming, there is a mountain bikers playground of land that runs between I-80 and the Happy Jack Road. Here you’ll find tremendous variety in addition to many miles of singletrack. While Cheyenne and Laramie are the state’s largest and third largest cities respectively, their combined populations still fall short of 100,000, so …

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