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News Releases, Stories and Event Announcements
Little River Park creates nice
place where people can escape bustle
By ROB SHAPARD : The Herald-Sun
rshapard@heraldsun.com
Dec 10, 2005 : 9:36 pm ET
DURHAM -- Larry Adams used to worry about dump trucks
rumbling past his home all day, hauling scraps from construction and demolition
projects to a new landfill.
He and his neighbors in northeastern Orange County got
organized, and Adams was among those who planted signs in his yard along Guess
Road, decrying the notion of a landfill on nearby land....read
the story
Locals excited and concerned
about development plans for Burke Mountain Resort
Published: Sunday, December 11, 2005
By Leslie Wright
Free Press Staff Writer
EAST BURKE---This is a the kind of tight-knit place where
changing the color of the country store from yellow to blue
elicits community discussion -- it's still yellow.
It's also the kind of place where a delicate economy makes
Yankee thrift a way of life. When the first new fire truck the
all-volunteer East Burke Fire Brigade has ever owned arrived a
few weeks ago, it replaced a 1971 model....read
the story
By SEAN CONNEELY
For The Gazette
Rock Springs - In
1849 and 1850, wagon train parties forged their way west, lured
by gold discovered in California. Some of these fortune seekers
came from the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma. To avoid the heavily
used Oregon Trail, where a cholera epidemic was taking many
lives, the Cherokee parties established new trails across what
is now southern Wyoming. These routes, now called the Cherokee
Trail, set down paths that in some cases are still in use today
as mountain bike, ATV, motorcycle and four-wheel drive trails....read
the story
Get
outdoors: Head for the Arizona hills
By MICHELLE PIPER
Get Out
As summer and triple-digit
temperatures set into the Valley, don't surrender your energy to
the heat. Resist the temptation of laying by the pool and spend
some time being active, especially in the cool mornings and
evenings. Get out and enjoy some of the outdoor activities the
East Valley has to offer....read
the story
Ludlow teen riding to
the top of cycling world
November 25, 2005
By JOHANNA SORRENTINO Southern Vermont Bureau
LUDLOW — Ethan
Gilmour knows exactly what he wants.
Gilmour of Ludlow is the top cyclist in Vermont in his age and
class division and seventh overall in the country.
With the early success, Gilmour plans to turn professional after
high school, but he knows the only way he will get there is hard
work.
"I don't expect to do well at all the year I turn pro. I'm just
interested in learning how those races are raced," he said....read
the story
WNC calendar
published
November 24, 2005 6:00 am
The Ashville,
North Carolina Citizen Times runs a weekly schedule of outdoor activities,
including mountain biking and biking trips...read
the schedule
Mountain biker builds, writes
about Arkansas trails
Don West, president of Ozark Off Road Cyclists,
is the author of a book about where to ride.
By Ann Keyes
FOR THE NEWS-LEADER
Don West has many
ties to the natural world.
He's an
environmental consultant; his specialty is septic-system design. West gets paid
to build trails for the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission and for private
businesses. He's president of the Ozark Off Road Cyclists, a club that advocates
responsible mountain biking, trail maintenance and preservation of Arkansas
greenspace. He navigates the highs and lows of The Natural State in adventure
races. West is also a recently published author....read
the story
Mountain Bikers Seek
Use of North Branch Park Trails
November 21, 2005
By Sky
Barsch Times Argus Staff
MONTPELIER – Area
mountain bikers are asking the Parks Commission to open up a
portion of the North Branch Park's trail system to bikes, so
they can connect to the East Montpelier Trails system from
Montpelier....read
the story
State Park Receives $150,000 to Carve Out
10 Miles of Trails
Published Sunday, November 20, 2005 - Associated
Press
Nashville - Brown County State Park will use a
federal grant to carve 10 more miles of mountain
bike trails. The Department of Natural Resources
said it will designate $150,000 in federal
grants for the new trails....read
the story
MTB News & racing round-up for November
17, 2005
| Unless
you're lucky enough to live in the Southern Hemisphere,
November is the time of year where your opportunities
for mountain biking begin to get thin. Oh, you could
hack out some cold, wet rides just to get time on the
bike or you could move to Central California, but what
if you live in Cleveland, Ohio? Are you screwed out of
any chance to ride a mountain bike for the next four
months?....read
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Outdoors Calendar published
November 17, 2005
Submit items one week in advance for the
Outdoors Calendar, a weekly listing of hiking, mountain biking,
paddling, running and other outdoor activities in Western North
Carolina, to: Outdoors Calendar, Asheville Citizen-Times, P.O. Box 2090,
Asheville, NC 28802. E-mail to
lnash@CITIZEN-TIMES.com or fax to 251-0585....read
the calendar
Day Trips:
Mountain-biking trails the real jewel of Mount Laguna
MOUNT LAGUNA ---- In a few short weeks,
local adventurers will flock here to frolic in the snow as if it were
some sort of novelty. But the truth is that the real treasure of these
mountains is available year-round: It's the miles and miles of trails,
many of them suitable for mountain biking....read
the story
No better place for mountain biking in
California
When you buy a new
mountain bike, your first trip should be to Wilder
Ranch State Park, the No. 1 state park for biking in
California....read
the story
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Specialized BG
Sport mountain biking shoe and Crank Brothers Candy C pedals
Biking/Shoes
Success in switching from stirrups to clipless
pedals adheres to simple math; if it takes your bike 0.5 seconds to topple over
and you 0.4 seconds to extricate yourself, why, then, you've done it. Getting to
that point, as I recently found out, can be painful—and costly, as in replacing
a bent derailleur....read
the story
Loon Echo Bike
Trek Mar 11, 2005
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