Rides
A comprehensive archive of more than 20 years of rides
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on June 11, 2009
You see the strangest things mountain biking. We were taking a breather at the Crossroads, where the Devils Gulch and Mission Ridge trails intersect near the top, when a young couple pushing K-Mart specials came striding down the DG side. He was in front, she behind. Both were pushing their bikes … down the trail. [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Tales from the Trail | Tagged Devils Gulch, leavenworth, Mission Ridge, Mountain Biking
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on June 5, 2009
Last night, as temps hit 94 in Bellevue, I went out to ride with IMBA (International Mountain Bicycling Association) and EMBA (Seattle’s Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance) at Paradise Valley, the recently reopened Conservation Area past Woodinville near Maltby. Back in the day I rode Paradise occasionally, recalling it as a cross between an Appalachian firing [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Tales from the Trail, Trail Access | Tagged EMBA, Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, imba, Mountain Biking, Paradise Valley
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on June 4, 2009
Over on MTBR.com, Jon Kennedy of Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance has a post updating the group’s efforts to increase access to Tiger Mountain. Jon and I spoke yesterday, and I came away encouraged by EMBA’s efforts to raise awareness and integrate mountain biking interests with trail planning in the region, and especially on Tiger. Jon [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, Tiger Mountain, Trail Access | Tagged Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, Tiger Mountain
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on May 31, 2009
The Northwest Timber Trail on Tiger Mountain is closed again, this time for logging prep work near the upper trail. The good news is that the damage involves (so far) just one section, a yarding line just above where the trail starts to drop for good, and that a mid-June reopening is “expected.” I put [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Tiger Mountain, Trail Access | Tagged Mountain Biking, Tiger Mountain, Trail Access
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on May 29, 2009
Portland’s great mountain biking club, PUMP (Portland United Mountain Pedalers), has joined the “Alliance” movement among mountain biking organizations, changing its name to Northwest Trail Alliance and following in the footsteps of Seattle-based Backcountry Bicycle Trails Club’s changeover to Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance last year. The idea here is to emphasize mountain biking’s outreach to [...]
Posted in Culture, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Tiger Mountain | Tagged Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, hilary duff, kate hudson, northwest trail alliance, Tiger Mountain
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on May 22, 2009
Tiger Mountain is in great shape for riding this weekend, and the weather is supposed to be astounding. Upper Preston is almost completely dry, although lower Preston continues to be splatter time, with more wet spots than prom night. May 2009 has already nearly doubled the average rainfall for the month and we’ve still got [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Tiger Mountain | Tagged iverson trail, Mountain Biking, northwest timber trail, preston railroad grade, Tiger Mountain
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on May 21, 2009
When we think about doing trail work, our first impulse tends to be, “Any time we spend working on a trail could alternatively be spent riding on a trail.” And guess which we’d rather do. But over the years I’ve learned that trail maintenance has its upside. It’s convivial — you get to spend time [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Tiger Mountain, Trail Access | Tagged Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, Mountain Biking, Tiger Mountain, trail work
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on May 14, 2009
Tiger Mountain is covered with trillium this Spring — be sure to watch for them if you’re there during this weekend’s predicted sunshine. I don’t recall noticing trillium at Tiger — Kachess Ridge being the ride I’ve most associated them with year after year. Perhaps with climate disruption they are spreading to lower climes. They [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Tiger Mountain, Today's Ride | Tagged Mountain Biking, r+e cycles, Tiger Mountain, trillium
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on May 4, 2009
Having been out of town at the Sea Otter Classic, I’d missed the official opening date of April 13 (2 days earlier than usual) on Tiger Mountain, my favorite place to ride in the Seattle area. The sun was still out when I started, but a breeze was kicking up and the forecast called for [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Tales from the Trail, Tiger Mountain, Today's Ride | Tagged EMBA, Mountain Biking, preston, preston railroad grade, Tiger Mountain
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on April 20, 2009
One of the toughest mountain bikers in the world is not a guy. Last year she gave up a dominating career in mountain biking to train for the BMX event in the Olympics, tore out her knee, put off surgery and gutted it out to a bronze medal. She’s Jill Kintner, born in Seattle, 1999 [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Road Trips | Tagged dual slalom, jill kintner, Mountain Biking, Sea Otter
