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CultureFrom “Bombs Away” to Words on a Page
From “Bombs Away” to Words on a Page
A memoir from Kim Kircher (right) will be available in October. Photos courtesy of Behler Publications Kim Kircher is a ski patroller who throws explosives and calls “Bombs away!” from a helicopter, and an EMT who has saved lives. But it is her skill with the written word that is on display in her first book, The Next 15 Minutes: Strength From the Top of the Mountain, coming in October. The memoir begins at her husband’s diagnosis with bile duct cancer and traces the ordeal of treatment and waiting for a liver transplant. Kircher forges her way through the crisis by…...
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BikeOriginal Flow
Original Flow
Riding the Kingdom Trails in East Burke, Vermont. Photos by Greg PeruzziThe East Burke, Vermont network of mountain bike trails still rules back East It’s been more than 15 years since I first ventured out to East Burke’s Kingdom Trails in search of speed. Learning to ride mountain bikes back in the eighties on the slow-speed technical terrain (roots, mud, beaver dams, spleen-busting rocks) of New Hampshire made my skills sharp. But, the one thing we lacked here, and everywhere else in the Northeast for that matter, was fast, buttery track—the kind since made famous by Fruita, Colorado out…...
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BikeBike Town USA
Bike Town USA
Steamboat’s bike paths earn smiles from Marc, Ada, and Jake Peruzzi. Photo by Sarah PeruzziWhenever I watch the Tour de France I can’t help but cringe as face painters draped in American flags chase at the rear tires of the best riders in the world like rabid, umm, Belgians. Finally it’s Europe’s turn to cringe. The USA Pro Cycling Challenge is racing through Steamboat this weekend, and several thousand fans (many from Europe) are expected. It’s the only stop of the seven stages of the tour to host both a start and finish. You probably already know about the…...
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BikeJackson Hole’s New Bike Park
Jackson Hole’s New Bike Park
It’s not quite high noon, but a showdown is on in front of Jackson Hole Sports in Teton Village, Wyoming, on Sunday morning. A young boy dressed in full cowboy regalia strolls up to another wearing a full-face helmet and body armor on his shoulders, back, elbows, knees, and shins. “Say hello,” the cowboy’s mother prompts. “Hello,” he says, and pulls the trigger on his cap gun, firing a loud pop into the grass at his feet. The boy dressed like a Power Ranger in black plastic doesn’t respond, just grips the handlebars of his full suspension mountain bike…...
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BikeTrestle All Mountain Enduro: Day Three and Results
Trestle All Mountain Enduro: Day Three and Results
Tension was high at the base of Trestle Bike Park in Winter Park, Colorado, as the pro men started racing downhill. After four stages, Brian Buell (Team Geronimo/ Banshee Bikes) had accumulated an 11-second lead over Ross Schnell (Trek/Sram). Schnell attacked the final pedal heavy stage with blistering speed, passing Buell and winning the first ever Trestle All Mountain Enduro by a margin of 15 seconds. Buell was more than satisfied with his results—proving to fans and competitors the level of skill and endurance it takes to be an aspiring World Cup-level downhill racer. “The first stage was…...
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BikeTrestle All Mountain Enduro: Day 2
Trestle All Mountain Enduro: Day 2
Ross Schnell. Photo by Squirrel. Mountain bike racing has become too unilateral. At least that’s what Trek pro mountain bike racer Ross Schnell thinks. So he did what few pro athletes have ever done and gave back to the sport he loves by creating the Trestle All Mountain Enduro. “There isn’t really a competitive outlet for the average guy with a trail bike,” according to Schnell, “Everyone has a six-inch bike now—those people are on the outskirts of competition.” So to fill the gaping hole left by current race formats Schnell brought the multi-stage enduro race to the United…...
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BikeTrestle All-Mountain Enduro: Day One
Trestle All-Mountain Enduro: Day One
Heavy rains began to fall at the top of Winter Park’s Zephyr Express chair just before the start of the first ever Trestle All-Mountain Enduro mountain bike race. The event—a chairlift-accessed stage race—is one of the first of its kind in the United States. Mountain bike racing generally consists of two major formats: cross country, which consists of mountain biking long distances on both uphill and downhill terrain, and Downhill, a gravity fueled event where racers strictly descend technical tracks. The Trestle All-Mountain Enduro mixes a little cross country in with a lot of downhill over a three day,…...
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BikeFirst Time Mountain Biker
First Time Mountain Biker
Scott House leads a White Pine Touring group on the trail in Park City. Photo courtesy of White Pine Touring I like the idea of mountain biking, but I’m terrified of going over the handlebars. I took that fear with me to Park City, Utah, on a trip designed to put me atop two wheels and send me down singletrack for the first time. After arriving in Park City, I headed to a reggae concert with an old friend. We tracked riders moving through the trees above us at Deer Valley, and his trail map kept drawing my attention…...
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BikeSun Valley’s Endless Singletrack
Sun Valley’s Endless Singletrack
See more from Sun Valley in the slideshow below. Photo by Scott Markewitz Ever since I started out as an intern at a national outdoor magazine back in the ’90s, I’ve been fielding pitches about the glorious riding in Sun Valley, Idaho. Yeah, yeah, I thought, I’ve lived in Missoula, Montana, and Plymouth, New Hampshire, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Not exactly slumming it in terms of backyard singletrack. I’ve ridden great fat tire destinations like Fruita, Moab, Crested Butte, Salida, Park City, Steamboat, Sedona, and tiny East Burke, Vermont. There’s a lot of great riding in this country.…...
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