Mountain Biking - Denver Post ; Freeride artical

I think this is one of the best articals I have seen about freerideing. Yes they are speaking of Denver, CO. but it applies to all resorts accross the country.

See artical here ;
Freeriders (http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~76~1499697,00.html#)

"All riders want is a little variety, a chance to go to a mountain with more than two trails and some options," Setsma said. "If there was one mountain with 10 trails, nobody would ride anywhere else. Build it and they will come."



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Its true...most people in bc don't ride outside of bc...on whistler mountain alone there is 20 trails and that doesn't include the valley, squamish, nelson or the shore. All combined I have no doubt there are more the 500 very good technical trails within 2 hours of me :)

For that mountain in particular they are going to have to realize the evolution of mountain biking and embrace it in order to continue making money. It is a fact of life for any resort. 10 years ago there was no tourism in whistler in the summer and now we are growing at a rate of 50% per year and by 2010 are expected to exceed ski season for tourism (yehaw). Freeriding is a fact of life and the sooner resorts give good well made, well maintained trails the better for the resort, the riders and the environment (no 'making our own trails') As a ski resort they should realize it costs money to generate money. If they create a series of great trails and risk operating at a loss for a short time and increase prices and well advertise I have no doubt they could make a buttload if they just thought about it :)

Read the article. The one photo was quite inspiring. A 54 yr old taking air. Cool!

its cool they mentioned mountain creek. i cant wait to finally get up there.

I hope I'm kicking big air like that when I'm old :)

54, thats scary. that's like my dad freeriding. something i can't ever imagine. more props to the guy though.