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Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Pirate Trails, Mud, and Booby Traps

Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Singletracks.com

Sports, Wilderness

4.7574 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Singletracks podcast, Gerow, Jeff, and Matt discuss trail advocacy news from the North America and Europe, and share the results from recent trail etiquette surveys.

* Riding wet trails
* Pirate trails going legit
* Who yields: climbers or descenders?
* Is skidding still cool?
* Trail terrorism
* IMBA EU
* Mountain bike impact review
* New bikes in Wilderness legislation
* Natural Resources Management Act

--Keep up with the latest in mountain biking at Singletracks.com and on Instagram @singletracks

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:08.0

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0:16.0

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0:20.0

Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast.

0:22.9

My name is Jeff, and today Matt and Jero and I are going to be talking about some mountain bike trail advocacy issues.

0:29.8

We're also going to talk about trail etiquette as well, because that subject kind of overlaps.

0:35.7

And there's been a lot of news over the past few months.

0:39.7

If you've been keeping up with single tracks, we've been writing about this stuff sort of as

0:43.9

it comes in, but we thought it would be fun and interesting to sort of round it all up and have a

0:49.1

conversation about some of the things that are happening. So first off, let's talk about some of the crazy

0:56.1

weather we're having in the United States, at least. I don't know about Europe too. Matt,

1:01.6

there was a lot of snow in Colorado in June, right? Yeah, yeah, it's been kind of ridiculous.

1:11.0

I mean, just a really wet winter overall, and then it's just extended all the way into June, basically, to where, yeah, even the high country got some snow over this last weekend.

1:25.1

And then even down in the front range, we fighting snow in May so um wow usually a bit

1:31.7

of that every year but it does like after a long winter when you're like sweet it's spring

1:35.7

I can go ride it's like no not really right yeah and you're up at Keystone right now and I heard

1:42.7

that they opened the bike park but then they had to close it back down for a little bit because of all the snow.

1:48.0

Yeah, yep, Keystone and Winter Park too.

1:52.6

We did some riding here yesterday and it's like only the lower mountain.

1:58.3

We went up to the top of the mountain yesterday.

2:01.2

There's still so much snow around.

2:02.8

Like, yeah.

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