PUBLISHER:

Brandon Watts

EDITOR:

Silly Anne (Priscilla Watts)

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS:

Stephen Dempsey
Lorraine Blancher
Patrick Augustine
Katie Lindquist
Bill Boles
Trevor Kaiser
Brandon Watts
Ryan Wilson
TJ Gumz

CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS:

Mason Mashon
Ryan Kirk
Josh Poulsen
Karen Myers
John Goeller
Todd Barber
Wade Youngblood

CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS:

Hometown: Revelstoke, BC – the best mountain town EVER!

Age: 34

Birthplace: Vernon, BC

Favorite Trail:
Hmm, probably Olleros in Peru.  Imagine descending a super fun, fast and flowy singletrack trail for almost 12,000 vertical feet!

Airtime or speed?
I love quality airtime!  My favorite is sending high-speed booters like the Crabapple Hits in Whistler and Pipedream at Silver Star.

Sponsors?
Rocky Mountain, Raceface, FOX, WTB, Hayes, 5.10, ODI

KAHULUI, HAWAII

Words by TJ Gumz
Photos by Todd Barber

“You’re guaranteed to crash,” Scott says to a nearby customer who wants to rent a mountain bike for the Skyline trail down the spine of the Haleakala volcano. Scott is a bike mechanic who days later shattered his wrist to powder on a dirt bike. Pins, plates, screws and wire hold what is left together; he still has no feeling in his fingertips a week later. When he talks about crashing, you have to wonder whether you share his pain threshold or not.

Words Bill Boles
Photos John Goeller

Origins

Nickname: McDreamy

Hometown: Brighton, MI

Age: A young 25

Birthplace: Ann Arbor, MI

Favorite Trail: Pisgah, NC…all of it! But if I had to pick only one, Black Mountain for sure.

Sponsors?
Bell’s Brewery, Quirring Cylcles, Louis Garneau, SRAM, Stan’s No Tubes, my ever-loving parents.

Favorite place to ride?
In a Land Before Time

Favorite place to race?
West Virginia holds a special place in my heart.

Name:
Trevor Kaiser

Hometown:
Colorado Springs, CO

Current Location:
The Emerald City

Current Occupation:
Design Hustler

Hobbies:
Drawing and Painting, creating kewl letters, Aerosol Art, Collecting absurd DVDs, Playing records, Making Moves, working 60+ hr. work weeks, making ninja weapons, making very non-pc jokes, making moves, and working more long work weeks.

Words and Photos by Katie Lindquist

Photo Josh Poulsen

Photo by Josh Poulsen for DLP Photography, taken at the 2009 Kokanee Crankworx. Unknown Racer on Karate Monkey.
Freehub “Reader Photo Contest” winner [1st place] Photo by Josh Poulsen

Columbia, South Carolina
Words by Patrick Augustine
Photos by Karen Myer

For riders on the East Coast, it’s easy to dabble in self-pity, bemoaning our fate as trail-impoverished in comparison to our brethren west of the Mississippi. Lacking the templar vistas championed by Muir and Mather, Southeast riders outside of the Appalachians often come to view their local haunts with the same disdain they may have for certain family members. You again, really?