High peaks, peaceful valleys, and abundant wildlife attract adventurers to this part of the country who are looking for excitement and serenity. The Teton Valley offers the peaceful pleasures of yesterday as it is less developed than its sister city of Jackson. While providing similar access to the regions towering peaks, mountain lakes, and numerous […]
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8/31/17 Update On July 15th, Jim Sadauckas began flagging and clearing the advanced Green loop. With the help of the trail crew and a few dedicated volunteers, the trail began to take shape over the next couple weeks. All of that hard work and the trail is now ridable. We will be completing a few
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8/31/17 Update The trail crew began scouting the Pole Canyon connector earlier this Spring and the flagging was approved by Scott Bossell of the Teton Basin Ranger District the first week of August. On August 6th, 40 volunteers organized by Teton Valley Trails and Pathways, a Forest Service crew, and MBT’s trail crew collaborated in
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8/31/17 Update From Monica Zimmerman: “We had a graduate student here for 3 weeks in July reviewing the public comments and starting to draft the management alternatives. She is working on them now and will get them back to me to review with our team. Hopefully, we can get them out to the public for
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Thank you, thank you, thank you to all of you who donated! Between May 19th and July 21st, 2017, 105 donors gave to Mountain Bike the Tetons through the Tin Cup Challenge. Totaling $21,170.80, your donations will be matched by the amazing Community Foundation of Teton Valley. They will directly fund trail advocacy, maintenance, and program
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With the surge in popularity of balance bikes, we are seeing children learning to ride bikes soon after walking. Kids are interested in becoming more skilled at a younger age and would greatly benefit from a program to teach bike safety, etiquette, and riding skills. The Teton area is lacking programs for young cyclists and
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From the Trail Crew desk: July 17, 2017 First, our big news: we have hired Maintenance Monday regular Tyler Nelson as our third trail crew member. Tyler is finishing up his previous job at Grand Teton Brewery and will join us on the trail sometime this week. He was hired with funds from our recently awarded National Forest
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Dear Friends, 2015 was a pivotal year for Mountain Bike the Tetons. As I look back on my first year as Executive Director, I’m so pleased to see how far our organization has come, and I’m excited and energized to keep the momentum rolling into 2016. Community support has fueled our successes. Whether you moved
In 2014, Teton Region was granted Silver Level Ride Center status by the International Mountain Bicycling Association, a designation representing IMBA’s Model Trail recognition for large-scale mountain bike facilities that offer something for every rider. Riders in the Teton Region have to make some tough decisions about which of the dozens of amazing trails to ride. The
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In 2014, Mountain Bike the Tetons secured a grant from 1% for the Tetons to design and dig a massive reroute to replace the existing fall line trail up to Windy Ridge, knowing this hike-a-bike was keeping many riders from enjoying this otherwise phenomenal ride. This fall line trail was deeply eroded and therefore depositing
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After the trip I’d taken the previous year, I wasn’t prepared to spend more than a few hours at a time behind the wheel, so I charted a course around the block that would take me to visit some old friends and a few new riding destinations. First stop was Logan, UT where several good
“Each of us at Mountain Bike the Tetons is thrilled to have Amanda join us to lead our operational efforts,” said MBT Board Chair David Treinis. “Our Board and membership have invested well over a year carefully developing strategies to best maintain and further develop our extraordinary trail system. We want to see the Tetons
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A couple of weeks back Mitch and I took a quick four hour drive up to the Idaho/Montana border where we met Chris and Troy to do some riding at the Lost Trail Bike Fest. The LTBF is still in its infancy, this year being the second annual occurrence of the event. Jointly organized by
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We’re less than a week away from the 5th Annual Wydaho Rendezvous Mountain Bike Festival which takes place at Grand Targhee Resort from August 29th – September 1st over Labor Day weekend. This year’s festival looks to be bigger than ever with demo booths from ten different bike companies. I also hear registration is up
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A few photos I took at the race last weekend: Beautiful weather, perfect conditions, the best course to date (no more double track), and a very impressive effort from all of the racers made for a amazing race. More photos can be seen over at Grand Targhee’s Facebook page. Race results can be found at
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Here’s a few new videos from this summer to get you stoked about the weekend. Descending Mahogany Creek earlier this summer on the weekly Habitat group ride: Going down Black Canyon after hiking up Pass Ridge through the snow a few weeks ago: A quick lap on Bullwinkle and Otter Slide at Grand Targhee last
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This story originally ran in the June issue of Bike BY KIM CROSS PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAY GOODRICH THE CRUX OF LITHIUM is a cheese-grater outcrop of limestone, steep and exposed, on a rib of the Tetons. It is the pivotal moment of a downhill trail that plunges, loose and raw, through Bridger-Teton National Forest. The man
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Hello again. It’s been a minute since I posted anything to the blog so I’ll start out with what I’ve been up to since I was on here last. Back in October, I had some free time and decided to take a little road trip. I filled up the Jeep with camping gear, my mountain
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Originally reported by Scott Stunz, TVN The City of Victor is asking the forest service for permission to build 15 miles of new trails emanating from the Mike Harris trailhead half of a mile south of town. The Southern Valley Trails Project [SVTP] was first initiated in 2010 to conduct a formal study of public
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This weekend Chris and I did some biking near Hoback Junction, or as the bumper stickers for sale at the market there refer to it, Hoback Nation. I’d been wanting to ride Cliff Creek and Chris suggested hitting up Granite Hot Springs and camping out there so I packed up Clark dog and the tent
And some words about the race from the JH News & Guide.
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Over the last few weeks I’ve ridden the loops in Rick’s Basin several times. I hadn’t been out there all summer until just recently but it’s been nice to get a quick and easy pedal in after work. Also, I needed to see the improvements made to the Rick’s Basin trail and to check out
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Just a couple of weeks left until the 4th annual Wydaho Rendezvous Mountain Bike Festival. This year it kicks off on Friday August 30th and runs through Monday September 2nd with four days of clinics, rides, races and events events. This time around Grand Targhee Resort will be hosting the festival along with several races
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Last week Alex, Chris and I went for a ride on Pine Creek Pass. I’ve been wanting to check this trail out since seeing it on a Forest Service map a while back and talked those guys into exploring it with me. Prior to the ride, I couldn’t find any details on the trail. Nobody
Last week Kinney and I checked out the Grove Creek to Drake Creek Ride in the southern end of the Big Holes. I had never ridden these before but gathered from reading a few descriptions and talking to several people who had ridden them, that there would be some hiking involved. Pushing bikes up steep
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Colorado’s Yeti Cycles recently paid a visit to the Tetons and had this to say about our awesome backyard: “A land largely unaffected by the progress of man, the Tetons Range and the surrounding areas are a pristine ecosystem inhabited by a vast diversity of wildlife spreading across multiple national parks. Uninhibited by foothills on
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Last week I hung out with the Habitat crew for their weekly group ride, The Man Show. This is probably the most fun you could have on a group ride. Most everyone is just getting off of work and aren’t taking things too serious. It’s usually a ride at your own pace, see you when
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Last week Chris and I pedaled up Pole Canyon and took the Pole to Mikesell Traverse over to the top of Mikesell Canyon. Here’s some video of the descent down Mikesell.
By Tim Adams Reproduced with permission from Cycling Utah A community of roughly 8,000 people. Teton Valley for decades was best known for its agriculture, world class fly fishing, hiking/camping, and 500″ of “cold smoke” powder skiing annually at the Grand Targhee Resort. Teton Valley is also home to a network of approximately 400 miles
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A couple of weeks ago I headed over to Cache Creek and rode a few of the trails I wasn’t able to last summer due to them being on fire at that time. I pedaled up the Cache Creek Sidewalk trail crossed over to Hagen then continued up Cache to Game Creek. Dropping into the
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Last Saturday I took a ride after work with a crew from Habitat/Targhee. From the ‘ghee we pedaled up the Powder Reserve Traverse towards Lightning Ridge and kept going up Peaked Mountain. After hanging out for a while at the top of the descent we dropped into .38 Special which was just barely cut in
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Views: Big Munger Mountain Bike Trail – Wilson, WY by Dana Ramos I spent 3 weekends lapping Munger Mountain. I hadn’t ridden this area for a couple of seasons, not since all of the new trails had been built. The last time I had ridden it there was basically only one loop on that went
I’ve been slacking on the blog. Even though I haven’t been writing much I have been riding a ton. I put the skis away right after the resorts closed this winter and headed south. I didn’t end up making it too far but still had a great trip. I spent a few days in Pocatello
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Originally published by Teton Valley News written by: Rachael Horne In the past, if you wanted a new bike trail around the valley, you built one. But the mentality that it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission is shifting. Now with the support of the newly formed Mountain Bike Teton Valley, a chapter of
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The requests given here are for connections and improvements to the trail system in Teton Valley. Some are reroutes and some are new trail. These requests come from a variety of back-country trail users throughout Teton Valley. We are petitioning the Teton Basin Ranger District to reopen the Travel Plan and consider including these requests.
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Over the last few weeks I haven’t been posting as many updates as I had been earlier this summer. That’s not to say I haven’t been riding though. Instead of trying to crank out more map segments I decided to get some rides in for fun. This past month I’ve ridden Southfork Horseshoe, the lower
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This week Beth and I rode Pine Creek Pass again, taking a more popular loop this time. We started at Spooky, pedaled up to the junction with Corral Creek, and headed east. From there we climbed up to the top of Red Creek and coasted down to the other end of Corral. The first part
A few days ago I took G-Money for a ride around a couple of the Pine Creek Pass trails. Starting w/Spooky I pedaled up to the junction of Corral Creek and took a left heading West. From there we rode down to the Sheep Driveway. This half of the trail is super smooth, fast, and
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This Weekend I started exploring the trails of the Snake River Range. I had never gone into this area w/o a pair of skis before this. Parking at Mike Harris I rode up the power line access road, taking a small detour along the way to lap one of the side trails. From there I
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Yesterday Beth and I rode the south fork of Horseshoe to Mahogany Creek. We started at the trailhead to Mahogany and got the 11 mile road ride out of the way first. Having ridden the south fork once already this summer, the climb didn’t seem so bad this time. As I mentioned in my last