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Mountain Biking Stories
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Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from Dan Moore, down in southern Utah. Dan sent us this story in response to our request to “Tell Us About Your Rad Dad.” Last week’s featured submission was from a young lady whose discovery of herself and the outdoors is still unfolding. This week’s feature offers a look back…
![Photo: Laura Winberry](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Moab_1_featured-768x424.jpg.webp)
I can’t help but say or think or feel it: this is Abbey Land. Despite the various crusts that have formed over the years since Abbey was alive and well in the Moab area, this is still his place. Of course, it is the earth first, shifting and sliding and tectonically galloping—and not giving a…
![Chris Shalbot races the weather above Big Hole Pass as foreboding clouds gather in the distance. Photo: Scott Rinckenberger](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/rinckenberger_s_0012_cc_WEB_1600TCL-768x424.jpg.webp)
The Continental Divide Trail is not often traveled, and rarely by bike. The sheer remoteness makes access tricky. With this in mind, Scott Rinckenberger, Justin Olsen and I set out for 11 days on our bikes, pedaling northeast from Chief Joseph Pass. We wanted to shed some light on this beautiful area. The second night…
![Mud, Sheep, Fish, Trail](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/mcintyre_m_0032_1600TCL-768x424.jpg.webp)
The raw potential of mountain biking in Iceland’s Westfjords.
![Life of Pie: How Hot Tomato Pizza Unites a Mountain Biking Paradise](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/zoch_c_0268_cc_march19-1600x883-768x424.jpg.webp)
Friday night at the Hot Tomato is not for those in a hurry. Hungry customers grip pints of beer and compare notes on the day’s rides in lines that spill into the parking lot. Music pumps and the staff whirls behind the counter, tossing floury dough, yelling requests to the kitchen, giving each other shit.…
![“Life of Pie”: Jen Zeuner and Anne Keller Q&A](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/zoch_c_0256-1600x833-768x400.jpg.webp)
In a fossil-rich corner of western Colorado, set against lush agricultural fields, the big-box stores of Grand Junction and the sandstone formations of the Colorado National Monument, you’ll find Fruita. These days, the town is an international mountain-biking destination known for its ribbony, high-desert trails, technical routes overlooking the Colorado River and funky downtown where…
![Making Dirt Magic: Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/etzel_k_1459-1600x883-768x424.jpg.webp)
Downieville, California was once one of the richest towns in the state, but by the mid-1990s it had gone full bust—until a few local mountain bikers’ began using the local trails to breathe new life into the town, turning the former ghost town into a recreation mecca.
![What Good Neighbors Do](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/gore_p_0050_cc_sept19-1600x883-768x424.jpg.webp)
In the 1980s, a group of cyclists in Washington banded together to protect their local trails from illicit activities; 30 years later, that momentum has reshaped the city and preserved a watershed.
![It Takes All Kinds: Horses and Bikes in the Washington Backcountry](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/hornbecker_c_0003-v2-768x512.jpg.webp)
The Trans-Cascadia has become one of the Pacific Northwest’s most notorious races. This past August, the Back Country Horsemen of Washington joined the Trans-Cascadia team—a first for all involved.
![Saving Slickrock](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/20180317-_mop23167-2250x1266-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
The Slickrock Trail, in Moab, Utah, is one of the most popular mountain bike rides in the world. Now, under a recent BLM decision, it could also be opening to oil and gas drilling.
![Vince Anderson Q&A](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/selwyn_j_0009-2250x1265-768x432.jpg.webp)
When Vince Anderson took a break from alpine climbing, his mountaineering attitude manifested itself in a single-speed hardtail, on which he’s won some of the sport’s most grueling races.
![Right Where I Belong](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/johnson_hansi_0004_cc_croped-768x432.jpg.webp)
“That comfort, the ability to feel like you’re not stepping outside of some boundary; It’s not like, ‘Do I belong here?’ No, this is where I’m supposed to be.”
![New Roads in the Ancient Kingdom of Zanskar](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/mcintyre_m_0073_cc_web-2250x1266-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Perched in the Himalaya and once accessible only by trail, India’s Zanskar region has remained largely free of Western influences for over 2,000 years. That could all change as a new highway brings a wave of instant globalization.
![On Trail and Off the Map](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/wittenberg_m_0002-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
In Coyhaique, Chile, the ghosts of resource extraction may offer a path toward a new recreation-based future.
![A Pedal Through the Prairie](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/caldwell_joel_0008-2250x1266-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
A bikepacking expedition inspired by one of North America’s most iconic landscapes, and the American Prairie Reserve’s audacious effort to restore it.
![Amidst the Mustard](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/maxwell_frank_20200617_0070-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Battling invasive species through better trailbuilding.
![Why Wilderness Matters More Than You](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/zoch_c_0105-2250x1501-1-768x512.jpg.webp)
BIKE Magazine contributing editor Michael Ferrentino on our perceived right to ride wherever we want.
![The Myth of the Great Bike Savior](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/dsc9368_cc_web-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Outdoor recreation can be a lifeline for local economies, but the industry has also benefited from the erasure of Indigenous peoples from their lands.
![Best of Home, Volume 1 – Backbone Trail](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/boh_16_9_tcl-768x432.png.webp)
Photo editor Kyle Sparks kicks off our new social media series, “Best of Home,” documenting the everyday, out-the-back-door trails that mountain biking depends on.
![Best of Home, Volume 2: Cougar Ridge](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/boh_9_16_tcl-768x433.jpg.webp)
In the second installment of our “Best of Home” series, photographer, writer and editor Colin Wiseman takes us to Washington State’s gloomy, fern-filled Whatcom County for a signature Pacific Northwest ride.
![At the River’s Edge](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/hopkins_k_0003_cc_web-1500x844-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
How one suburban mountain biker’s vision for a trail system reshaped a former industrial town—and turned trail building into a family tradition.
![Moving the Needle](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/smith_a_0007-2250x1266-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
As editor of the world’s largest mountain bike magazine, Nicole Formosa showed her audience the world’s largest issues—and revealed the sport’s resistance to confronting them.
![A Leadership Supreme](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/mcintyre_m_0206_cc_web-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
The mountain-biking star of Becoming Ruby seeks out some of skiing's most powerful females.
![All Trails Belong to Mother Earth](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/brasil_l_0008_cc_web-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Following in Indigenous Footsteps on the Ute Pass Trail.
![A Swamp and 60 Feet](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/dupre_n_0026_cc_web-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
An unlikely community, in the most unlikely location, has become an even more unlikely force for public lands conservation.
![Trails for Everybody](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/delahuerta-m-0009-cc-web-2250x1266-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
An interview with Gabo Benoit, trail advocate and mountain-bike mayor of Coyhaique, Chile.
![It’s a Magical World](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/trumpore-d-0037-cc-web-16x9-3-768x432.jpg.webp)
Rolling through a full-scale sensory rebellion in New England.
![The Writing on the Wall](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/kozlowski-d-0005-cc-web-1900x900-1-768x364.jpg.webp)
In a tiny Colorado ski town, the world’s oldest mountain-bike club is facing the complicated reality of recreation gone right.
![The Pisgah Paradox](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/kearns-t-0015-cc-web-2250x1066-1-768x364.jpg.webp)
In North Carolina’s Pisgah National Forest, a collaboration between anglers and mountain bikers uses better trails to create healthier rivers.
![North Shore Betty](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/rummel-t-0110-cc-web-19x9-1-768x364.jpg.webp)
After nearly 30 years on the hallowed trails of southern British Columbia, Betty Birrell still thinks life is one big playground—and that you’re never too old to send.
![In Relation to All Things](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/biidaanakwa-clouds-are-coming-768x576.jpg.webp)
In learning her ancestral language, one mountain biker finds a different way to relate to the world, herself and her community—and ride her bike.