Tales from the Trails

Here we go for the last round of Tales from the Trails for the year, this time for the ultimate winter riding spot, Tokul Creek. Get your tale in to us by November 19 to enter.

I turned around to look at the moon and up on the ridgeline I could see the spooky outline of what appeared to be a monolithic head. It reminded me of an Easter Island statue somehow transported to Cascadia. But this one looked scary as it’s crazy strands of hair shooting up from it’s head and thin furrowed eyes.

...through jarring bar-meet-tree incidents, and provided the painful awareness that flat pedals stick to shins as well as they do Stealth Rubber. Exhausted, muddied and bloodied, I was smitten. Happy as a pig in mud.

...new trails — an entire new trail system! — had been opened just half an hour from Seattle. Raging River, the emerging crown jewel of Pacific Northwest mountain biking.

And then, the whispers began. I can’t remember exactly where I was...

it was one of those situations where you want to look back and confirm everything you saw...but I also felt awkward about the interaction and so kept pedaling with that feeling of someone watching my back. It was such a weird encounter that I kept thinking about all the likely...

A contest to tell the craziest story from the riding zone we specify, this time for Raging River. The winner will receive a prize package from PNW Components, Abit Gear and Dirco. Congrats to our winner, Xuân Mai Võ! Read her winning tale, Raging Against the Machine: Down in the Dirt