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Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

What It’s Like to Run an MTB Getaway

Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Singletracks.com

Sports, Wilderness

4.7574 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Singletracks podcast we talk with Kate and Andrew Gates from Mulberry Gap about what it’s like to run a mountain bike getaway.

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

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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.

0:23.7

Today, I'm here with Jeff, and we are talking to the owners and operators of one of our

0:29.7

favorite places on Earth, Mulberry Gap Mountain Bike Getaway.

0:33.8

So we have on the line with us, Andrew and Kate Gates. So thanks for joining us today, guys.

0:41.4

Thank you for having us. We appreciate it. For sure. So why don't you start out by telling us a little bit

0:47.9

about yourselves? Well, the stuff that people normally ask is how mulberry gap kind of came to be.

0:56.0

And it's not your typical story.

0:59.8

And I guess the family dynamics of mulberry is pretty complicated too.

1:04.0

So it's always very intriguing to people.

1:06.6

So Andrew and I met in high school when we were 15 and 16.

1:12.1

And through that dating relationship is how our parents became friends.

1:17.5

So that was kind of the basis of it all.

1:20.5

It kind of just evolved into a mountain bike getaway after a few years of early exploring

1:27.1

and trying to figure out what our

1:28.7

market and clientele would be. And really, quite frankly, the mountain bike community kind of just

1:34.6

chose us. And I kind of joke and say that they kind of stuck a fork in us and claimed

1:39.7

us as their own and helped evolve us into who they are or who we are and you know that's kind of

1:47.0

just what makes mulberry so specials not only the family dynamics of the people who own and operate it

1:52.4

but just also that is community built and really you can just kind of see the culture all throughout

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