Contributors

Self portrait illustration of cyclist Justin Short.

Justin M. Short

Justin M Short has been a BMXer and bike messenger, and is currently a bike tourist, bike commuter, mountain biker, and most recently has become a pied piper of gravel cyclists in the Inland NW. He organizes races up Mt. Spokane and a gathering a community called the Gravel Braintrust, as well as produces a YouTube channel of the same name, arguably, to trick his bike friends into listening to his weird music. He is a 2-time finisher of the CrossWashington Mountain Bike Race and writes the Everyday Cyclist column.

Derrick Knowles

Derrick is editor-in-chief and co-publisher of Out There Outdoors, along with his wife, Shallan. He has spent more than 30 years exploring the Inland Northwest’s trails, mountains, lakes and rivers. He co-edited with Paul Lindholdt the book Holding Common Ground: The Individual and Public Lands in the American West (EWU Press, 2005), and his writing has also appeared in Kootenay Mountain Culture magazine and Conservation Northwest Quarterly. He is an EWU alumni, with a B.A. in Political Science and Master's in English Technical Writing.

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