Tales from the Trail
Mountain bike ride reviews, bicycle rides
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 16, 2009
Over the holidays the incredible news machine that is Bike Intelligencer inevitably slackens as cyclists of all bent don funny little pointed sticks or funny fat flat sticks and head for trails covered by snow. We of course ride in snow. But we of course are nuts. In any case, the holidays seem like a [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Road Trips, Tales from the Trail | Tagged boundary creek ride, elephant's perch bike shop, stanley idaho mountain biking, Sun Valley Mountain Biking
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 15, 2009
Over the holidays the incredible news machine that is Bike Intelligencer inevitably slackens as cyclists of all bent don funny little pointed sticks or funny fat flat sticks and head for trails covered by snow. We of course ride in snow. But we of course are nuts. In any case, the holidays seem like a [...]
Posted in Road Trips, Tales from the Trail | Tagged Mars Ridge, Sun Valley Mountain Biking
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 14, 2009
Soquel Demonstration Forest is a ridge-top network of trails in the northernmost section of Forest of the Nisene Marks, a prime mountain biking haunt near Santa Cruz CA. I’ve spent the past couple of weeks exploring the Demo Forest, as it’s called. If you haven’t been there, or it’s been awhile, here’s what you’re looking [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Tales from the Trail | Tagged braille trail, santa cruz mountain biking, soquel demo forest, soquel demonstration forest
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 14, 2009
Note: Over the holidays the incredible news machine that is Bike Intelligencer inevitably slackens as cyclists of all bent don funny little pointed sticks or funny fat flat sticks and head for trails covered by snow. We of course ride in snow. But we of course are nuts. In any case, the holidays seem like [...]
Posted in Road Trips, Tales from the Trail | Tagged Sun Valley Mountain Biking, Wolftone Creek
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 13, 2009
Over the holidays the incredible news machine that is Bike Intelligencer inevitably slackens as cyclists of all bent don funny little pointed sticks or funny flat rounded sticks and head for trails covered by snow. We of course ride in snow. But we of course are nuts. In any case, the holidays seem like a [...]
Posted in Road Trips, Tales from the Trail | Tagged Oregon Gulch, Sun Valley Idaho mountain biking
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on November 22, 2009
The Plains of Abraham, a desolate, stark romp through the death zone of the Mount St. Helens inferno nearly three decades ago, is a miraculous testament to Nature’s ability to resuscitate itself. Now it’s an officially recognized IMBA Epic as well. I’m happy because it gives me another epic to add to my IMBA quiver, [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Road Trips | Tagged imba, IMBA epics, Plains of Abraham
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on September 9, 2009
Last fall when Jim and I rode up Pyramid Peak, at 8,350 feet arguably the highest point open to mountain bikers in Washington State (Angel’s Staircase and Tiffany Peak are close competitors), Jim kept looking one ridge over and muttering to himself. “Dude, we’ve got to do Grouse Pass,” he said. It was out of [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Tales from the Trail | Tagged entiat, grouse pass, marmot, pugh ridge, Pyramid Peak, whistling pig
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on September 7, 2009
Before the weekend’s rains hit, Jim Lyon and I took a day to do some classic high-country mountain biking, the kind everyone did before Whistler, North Shore and Galby changed the mountain-bike scene. We must have run across a dozen marmots (whistling pigs) in the meadows, waddling languidly around and engaging in their high-pitched, eerie [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Tales from the Trail, Today's Ride, Videos | Tagged entiat, glacier peak wilderness, grouse pass, mountain bike video, Mountain Biking, pugh ridge, whistling pigs
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 26, 2009
Every year I go to Whistler expecting it to show signs of Moab Disorder. Moab of course used to be the center of the mountain biking universe. Then too many people went there and did that. The blase and inattentive locals did nothing to grow the culture, tapped-out riders started looking elsewhere, and what they [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Road Trips, Tales from the Trail | Tagged Babylon by Bike, Comfortably Numb, Olympic Winter Games 2010, See Colours and Puke, Whistler mountain biking
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on June 11, 2009
As of Sunday, Miller Peak’s fabled loop was still under snow along the ridge. After being advised by a motorcyclist whose helmet read “Motos for Christ” that there was no clearance for the entire loop (he seemed trustworthy), we decided to do an out and back on Iron Creek. The “out” isn’t too bad, requiring [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Tales from the Trail | Tagged Iron Creek, Miller Peak, Mountain Biking
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