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Opinion: Accept the Risks and Be Self Sufficient, or Don’t Mountain Bike

Editor’s Note: Greg Heil is a lover of solo backcountry rides, and taking unplanned turns on unmarked trails. While Greg is the Editor in Chief for Singletracks.com, the opinions expressed in this commentary are his alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Singletracks.com. One of the most insidious sociological epidemics sweeping the United States, and really the world, …

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Culture, death, lawsuit, lawsuits, opinion, personal responsibility, risks, wilderness -

Opinion: Accept the Risks and Be Self Sufficient, or Don’t Mountain Bike

Editor’s Note: Greg Heil is a lover of solo backcountry rides, and taking unplanned turns on unmarked trails. While Greg is the Editor in Chief for Singletracks.com, the opinions expressed in this commentary are his alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Singletracks.com. One of the most insidious sociological epidemics sweeping the United States, and really the world, …

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Advocacy Alert: A Big Step in the Right Direction in Idaho’s Boulder-White Clouds

For some time there has been much ado about how to best preserve Idaho’s stunning Boulder-White Clouds mountains.  Recently, preservationists and mountain bikers combined forces to arrive at a mutually beneficial means of protecting this magnificent natural resource. The following sentence from the linked article sums up the simple perfection of this approach:  “The agreement …

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Opinion: Response to “Wilderness is more important than thrill rides”

George Wuerthner of Mountain Bikers for Wildlands wrote a letter to the editor of the Idaho Mountain Express and Guide, saying, in part, And as a mountain biker, I believe the single best way to preserve the Boulder-White Clouds area is wilderness designation.   I am extremely disappointed in the overall selfish message from the …

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Video Trailer: “The Rider and the Wolf”

Crested Butte in 1980 still echoed with the hammers of miners, not the rumble of knobby tires on singletrack. But that was about to change as a young blue-eyed man named Mike Rust wrenched madly, transforming old Schwinn cruiser bikes into some of Colorado’s first mountain bikes.  When the Californians like Gary Fisher and Joe …

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