Hey, everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. My name is Jeff, and today Greg and I are going to be

discussing some of the latest news and trends from the world of mountain bike trail development.

For those who don't know him, Greg is the managing editor for single tracks, and he focuses

primarily on trail news and coverage from around the world. He also used to be a regular on

the single tracks podcast back when we got started in 2015, I believe. Welcome back, Greg. Good to be

back on the pod. Yeah, I can't believe we started that back in 2015. That sounds like a long time

ago now. Yeah, yeah. I wonder how many people

listening remember you from the podcast because I think also I was looking back. I think the last

episode you were on was like 2018 maybe. So yeah, it's been like seven years, I think. Well,

thanks for having me back. Yeah. Stoke to be here. Yeah, super stoked for you to be here

as well. So mountain bike tourism these days can be a pretty significant economic driver.

And you recently shared a meta-analysis by Imba and the Trust for Public Land that

looked at just how significant that impact is. Did anything in the

report stand out to you or surprise you? There were a ton of numbers in that report, which I

realize numbers could be tough on a podcast, but the high level from some of the economic impact,

the destinations profiled were really interesting.

So a couple examples.

One was big examples, at least.

One was the G-Mug area in Colorado, which is a combination of a bunch of national

forests and includes iconic destinations such as Crested Bute.

And they calculated that the G-Mug across the G-Mug,

Mountain Biking had about $30 million a year annual impact.

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