Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 28, 2009
See Kranked’s latest “Revolve” mountain-biking film and benefit your trails at the same time — head for North Bend Theater Thursday evening at 6:30 and enjoy the show! See a blind rider do jumps at Whistler! Find out how Jamie Goldman got fired from Santa Cruz Bicycles! Watch in dumbfounded wonder at how Lance McDermott [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Trail Access, Videos | Tagged Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, Kranked Revolve
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 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 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 March 11, 2009
The Seattle P-I, which unfortunately is on the verge of closing its print publication, has a long feature on Seattle’s mountain biking organization, the Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance. Formerly it was the Backcountry Bicycle Trails Club, but the organization has grown beyond being a club to a liaison with user groups, legislation, government officials and [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, Trail Access | Tagged Backcountry Bicycle Trails Club, Culture, Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, Mountain Biking, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 1, 2009
From BikePortland.org: “With the voting in of six new board members at their monthly meeting earlier this week, the Portland United Mountain Pedalers (PUMP) are set to embark a new era of off-road advocacy. These new board members mark a significant turning point for PUMP, a group that some advocates for more off-road riding opportunities [...]
Posted in Advocacy | Tagged EMBA, Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, Mountain Biking, Portland, PUMP, trail advocacy
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 26, 2009
A recent Bike Intelligencer posting on Tiger Mountain access has generated a lively if not acrimonious discussion on the Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance Yahoo! forum. It seems there’s lots of energy to talk. Why not siphon that energy into action as well? As I posted to the list: A simple proposal: Whenever one of the [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, Trail Access | Tagged EMBA, Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, Mountain Biking, Tiger Mountain Issaquah, Trail Access
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 21, 2009
It was a gorgeous day and the tail end of a fantastic sunny week in the soggy Northwest, so I made the trek for a second time in 4 days to Black Diamond. It’s funny and ironic, but “black diamond” in this case refers to coal, which was mined heavily in this area’s past — [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Tales from the Trail, Today's Ride | Tagged black diamond, Bob Hollander, EMBA, Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, Jim Hendricks, Lake Sawyer, Mountain Biking, Today's Ride, Turtle
