Road Biking Road Bike Areas The Spokane area offers the best in road biking. You can live in the heart of our city and ride from home, visiting quiet roads in minutes. We have low traffic rural roads surrounding the city that lead to pine forests, rolling wheat fields and small towns. Spokane has a […]
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I fell hard when I met Kalispell and the Flathead Valley for the first time, as the theme here is “astounding mountain views in everything you do.” The greater Flathead Valley region is Northwest Montana’s shining star with world-class mountain bike trails, multi-use trails with growth plans, Glacier National Park, historic downtowns, and historic paved
New Spokane-Area Program Launched for Middle and High School Kids Mountain biking is fun. It promotes a healthy lifestyle. It’s a sport you can do your entire life. So doesn’t it make sense to start when you’re young so you can enjoy the fun for years? Now is an excellent time to get your middle
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For long-time Silver Valley residents like Chase Sanborn, owner of Wallace Brewing Company, Lookout Pass Ski and Recreation Area is the perfect place to leave the crowds behind and immerse yourself in the winter wonderland of the Bitterroot Mountains. “I learned to snowboard up there in 1991,” says Sanborn. “It’s always been a fun mountain.
John Muir said “Going to the mountains is going home.” If you can relate, there is no shortage of places in the greater Inland Northwest that should feel like home. This is OTM’s second annual “Backcountry” issue, so a cover story highlighting a few wild, mountainous places that you can drive through, with drool-inducing views
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The riding and racing at Silver Mountain might not be what you expect. The image of large, bulky downhill bikes with riders covered head-to-toe in body armor may still come to mind. As bikes, trails and riders have progressed over the years, the Silver Mountain experience has as well. With the heavily ramped-up trail crew
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Riders from around the region voted Silver Mountain as the “Top Bike Park in the Northwest” in 2014 in the second annual Best Bike Parks survey conducted by MTBparks.com, an online guide to mountain biking resorts across the continent. Over 3,000 people participated in the survey, which moved Silver Mountain up from the number four
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If you own a mountain bike, and have been thinking about a trip up to Fernie, this is the weekend to do it. June 27-29 is the opening weekend for the Fernie Alpine Resort Bike Park; the weekend of Fernie’s biggest all-mountain stage race, a 3-day bike race called the Fernie 3; and the dates
Fernie, B.C.’s Biggest Biking Weekend of the Year Promises Fun for Everyone (June 27-29) Read More »
Just because you started mountain biking on a fully rigid fat tire bike back in 1993 doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a badass rider. Let me tell you. I’ve watched much younger riders with far fewer chain replacements under their saddles destroy me up and down the trail and launch off jumps and speed through rock-drop
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Save the easy approach to Abercrombie Mountain for summer. Once fall arrives, the long, 14-mile, roundtrip version gives hikers ample time to savor the spectacular colors. What’s more, the trailhead doubles as a free campground, encouraging visitors to make it a weekend. Start the hike beneath the treed canopy alongside Silver Creek, where the path
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