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Watch: Mountain Bikers Attacked by Swarms of Wasps

It’s been a rough couple of months for mountain biker wildlife encounters–from bears to a massive swarm of wasps! See for yourself in the video above. This makes my skin crawl!

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Watching for Wildlife: Tips for Dealing with Bears, Snakes, and Mountain Lions

We’ve all heard the hilarious story about how to tell the difference between black bears and grizzlies, right?  Black bears will have remnants of berries in their scat, and grizzlies will have remnants of bear bells in theirs!  All joking aside, our bike trails are out there in nature, where bears and snakes and mountain …

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An Inconvenient Fish

While mountain bikers work hard to build new trails, we constantly face losing existing ones as a result of development, lobbying by hikers and equestrians, forest fires and natural disasters, Wilderness designations, and other rule changes. One area, almost literally in my backyard, seems destined for closure due to a rather unexpected cause: the presence …

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