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Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast.

My name is Jeff, and today I'm talking with Stephen LaWadi,

who's the author of Mountain Biking Colorado's Front Range,

a guide to the greatest off-road bicycle rides and mountain biking Colorado,

an Atlas of Colorado's greatest off-road bicycle rides.

He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, and has been documenting mountain bike trails since the year

2000. Thanks for joining us, Stephen. Thanks, Jeff. Great to be here. So I wanted to start out by

asking you, how did you get started writing mountain bike guidebooks? It seems like a pretty sweet gig.

Yeah, you know, it was somewhat coincidental.

I had recently graduated from my graduate program and decided to start my freelance writing career.

So I struggled with that, as many do.

And my buddy, in fact, out of the blue, sent me a ad from

Mountain Biking Action Magazine or Mountain Bike Action Magazine. And they were a publisher,

a startup publisher was calling for writers who were interested in mountain biking. So like I did

countless times before, I sent them my clips, told them what I was about,

and never heard from them. So I figured, you know, that was basically the end of the road for my

mountain bike guidebook career. But they had called a year later while I was basically living in

Steamboat Springs as a ski bomb and mountain bike

bomb, and they had found my application and my clips and were still interested. And basically,

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