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		<title>Beaver chainsawed next to Cumberland trail</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 04:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Comox Valley Record Published: October 21, 2010 6:00 PM A beaver statue that had been carved into a broken-off tree on a Cumberland mountain bike trail was cut down and removed Sunday afternoon. The vandal(s) replaced Stanley the Beaver with a cross carved into the stump with a chainsaw. The beaver’s hands were holding an empty can of Thirsty Beaver beer, which was left sitting atop the cross. Those who use the Thirsty Beaver trail, especially out-of-town visitors, regularly had their picture taken alongside the carving. The carving was created by a member of the River Rats, a volunteer group that built the trail between last October and May of this year. The men and women volunteers include mountain bikers, trail runners and adventure racers. The Thirsty Beaver has become one of the two most popular trails in Cumberland, along with Blue Collar. It includes about 400 metres of elevated trail on hand-split cedar ramps, bridges and logs. Photos of Thirsty Beaver have appeared in the English Singletrack magazine. In addition, the television show Ride Guide has taken video for a coming episode. The Thirsty Beaver name derives from the beer most Rats drink after a hard day’s work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have you seen Cumberland&#8217;s Thirsty Beaver?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Currently Cumberland on Wednesday, 20 October 2010 at 11:43. What is wrong with people? This morning Carl Tessmann, Cumberlander and one of many who regularly is out running and/or biking in the trails, shared that the amazing carving of a beaver at the end of the upper Thirsty Beaver trail was cut down and stolen. Does anyone know anything about this? Does your neighbor or friend have it in their yard? What is wrong with people? This trail system was lovingly and very skillfully built over the past year and has over a hundred feet of boardwalk to protect the swamp/marshland that it crosses over. The trail itself is spectacular and one of the reasons why Cumberland is so well regarded for pristine single track mountain biking.The beaver carving is a fun-loving celebration of the craftsmanship that went into the building of the trail. This latest act of senseless vandalism follows this summer&#8217;s arson of the Cumberland Community Schools Garden Shed and composters up at the Elementary school. And then recently the newly replaced composters were vandalized again and the fruit trees had limbs torn off. And even more insane, some punks were caught by the janitor at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Butte, Montana</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mtnbikinggirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We managed to sneak one last ride in before heading home. Butte was on the way and John had mentioned that Beaver Ponds was a great trail so we met him at International Coffee Traders in Bozeman first thing in the morning and headed out. And weather-wise, our luck had changed. It was a beautiful sunny day! Beaver Ponds is found in Pipestone Pass, just south of Butte. It took us approximately an hour to drive there from Bozeman and we&#8217;re glad we were following John, even if he did try to take us on the scenic tour&#8230; We probably would have missed the trailhead otherwise. (The trailhead is marked where we exited, but not where we started.) The Beaver Ponds trail is sandy and quite a bit drier than the clay based trails we rode the previous day. It started off with a gentle climb straight from the highway and into the trees where it started to level out before the climbing again. Luckily the climbing here was a gentler grade than Grassy Mountain. Luckily the ride was more social than getting a workout in so it was a relaxed pace. The trail is lined by large boulders which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sun Valley, Idaho (Day Two)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For our second ride in Sun Valley we decided take the chair to the top of Bald Mountain. We parked at the River Run Plaza, bought our tickets and headed up. It was a cloudy and windy day and the ride up the chair was definitely chilly. By the time we reached the top of the first chair, we definitely needed our fleece hoodies. Another chair took us up another 1400&#8242; to the start of the trail. Before starting down the trail we decided to ride up to a lookout area and admire the mountain view. Total elevation &#8211; 9100&#8242;. We had our choice of two trails, both took approximately 2 hours to do. One took us to Cold Springs and the other to Warm Springs. Warm Springs was the more popular of the two so we decided to start with that one. The trail started off on a gentle slope through an alpine meadow before it started to trend downwards and became a fast, flowy ribbon of singletrack! The only hazards on the trail were the odd section of shale that had crumbled off the high side of the trail. It continued like this for miles before the trail [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sun Valley, Idaho (Day One)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mtnbikinggirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After two solid days of driving and watching the elevation steadily increase, we finally rolled into Sun Valley. On the drive there, I started to wonder what we were in for when I saw a rather large scorpion cross the road just north of Boise (I didn&#8217;t know Idaho had scorpions) but after being assured by one of the Sun Valley locals that they don&#8217;t live in the mountains, we set off to find a place to camp. That&#8217;s when we saw a fox in town. First time I&#8217;d seen one of those too, and of course I didn&#8217;t have my camera handy to catch a photo of either one. The next morning we awoke a bit late, not surprising after the long drive, so we took it easy and went into to town to get ourselves orientated. I had been told that Backwoods Mountain Sports was a good place to go for trail information and it was a good tip. They are all mountain bikers and extremely knowledgeable. We had a good chat with them and after purchasing a trail map, we started to plan where we wanted to ride. One of our criteria for our first ride was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cool Things I’ve Seen Lately…</title>
		<link>http://www.mtnbikinggirl.com/index.php/2010/05/cool-things-ive-seen-lately/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 05:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mtnbikinggirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past month has been awesome for some rare sights on the trails. Below are photos of the cool things I&#8217;ve seen over the past month. We&#8217;ve known for a while now that there are cougars in the area we ride on Forbidden Plateau, this is just the first time I&#8217;d seen tracks myself. Then less than a week later, I came across more markings and tracks&#8230; These ones shocked us since they were close to town, less than a 10 minute ride away. Then a little further down the trail we saw more tracks. We must have just missed the cougar when we were on Railroad, the markings were pretty fresh and these tracks led towards the trail. If you look closely you&#8217;ll see my glove is between two prints. After I took the photos of the tracks, a friend of mine saw 3 cougars on Forbidden Plateau while on a group ride. They were on a trail called Cliffe Ave, which isn&#8217;t far from Cabin Fever. So just a reminder to be aware and ride with care! Oh and make lots of noise too because there just might be&#8230; &#8230;a bear on the way to the trailhead! We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back in the Saddle!</title>
		<link>http://www.mtnbikinggirl.com/index.php/2010/04/back-in-the-saddle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mtnbikinggirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After some heavy rains, unexpected snowfalls, and aggravated injuries I&#8217;m finally back on my bike! And I&#8217;ve discovered our local trailbuilders have been fairly busy&#8230; Over on Forbidden there are a few new trails, one great one is White Rabbit. It starts beside the Plunge and avoids the nasty part of that trail before it joins up with Lower Plunge just above Peckerhead. Great flowy trail. Cabin Fever has also been extended and now starts higher up in the same area as 2 Sheiks and Screamin&#8217; Demon. This section of Cabin Fever is more of an XC trail with a couple of nice bridges and a canoe, not to mention a gap jump near the beginning of the trail. It&#8217;s a fun little section. Here&#8217;s the GPS info on where to find them: upper and lower cabin fever -> white rabbit -> lower plunge -> bears bait at EveryTrail Map your trip with EveryTrail There are also another two trails that come off Cabin Fever. One is called Slither and the other is called Rebel. Slither could easy become one of my favourite trails&#8230; Steep and flowy bits, love the combintation of the two! Rebel forks off from Slither and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Specialized Women’s BG Pro RBX Short Review</title>
		<link>http://www.mtnbikinggirl.com/index.php/2010/02/specialized-womens-bg-pro-rbx-short-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mtnbikinggirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In December I was lucky enough to score a pair of these shorts through a contest on the Specialized Women&#8217;s Facebook page with a stunning drawing of my favourite ride. After receiving the shorts in the mail, I was anticipating my first ride to put them to the test. Especially after I took a good look at the chamois, instead of it being the same thickness in the front and back, most of the padding is in the back. They also have &#8220;upper thigh friction protection&#8221;, which is extra padding where the shorts meet the thigh. At first I thought I had gotten the shorts a size too small but after putting them on, they were a perfect fit (the sizing chart on Specialized&#8217;s website is bang on). Here is the information Specialized has posted on their website The first ride I did was a quick 45 minute ride to check out the condition of our local trails (we recently lost several trails to logging) and at first I wasn&#8217;t entirely sold on them. The padding isn&#8217;t as thick as my other shorts and I found that it was bunching in spots that made me a bit uncomfortable. I knew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And still more logging…</title>
		<link>http://www.mtnbikinggirl.com/index.php/2009/12/and-still-more-logging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mtnbikinggirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I&#8217;ll admit it&#8230; I&#8217;ve been spending a lot of time on the couch lately with the cold weather, but I have managed to get out on weekly rides. I might have sat out last week&#8217;s ride until news came that logging was about to start on the Lower Cumberland trails once again. After hearing that I managed to round up a few friends (and their dogs) and we went for a farewell ride on a couple of the trails that were on the chopping block. It was a fairly decent 2.5 hr ride. We started off on 42nd, over Sykes Bridge, up to Teapot, around Allen Lake, over to Shaker (one of the doomed trails) and ended on Space Nugget. Colin managed to borrow a helmet cam from a friend and shot the following videos: Teapot &#8211; Cumberland, BC from Kookjai Media on Vimeo. Shaker from Kookjai Media on Vimeo. I&#8217;m hoping to get out on Shaker and Entrails again before they start logging that area. Below is a map of the trails that are affected. It&#8217;s been a busy year for logging this year, but hey, at least we know they won&#8217;t be logging these trails again for [...]]]></description>
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