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By Ariel Kent In this day and age mountain bikes come in all shapes and sizes. There’s fatbikes, plus bikes, 650B, 29ers, and the good old 26-inch. One is definitely not better than the other, and up until 5-10 years ago there wasn’t such a variety of options. Everybody has their thing. Some love 29ers…

By Matt Baatz Scouting Scan the terrain when the vegetation is waning. Bushwack. Get lost. Find the chunks of terrain that make your heart skip a beat—a rideable ledge, a swoopy piece of old road that you can modify, a rocky chute, a bermable turn. Marking Start flagging a rough path. Make the markings as…

RUTLAND—Rutland Recreation Department is offering a variety of sports and activities for area students of all ages. Register at rutlandrec.com or stop by the office located at 16 North Street Extension in Rutland for info. Archery Basic level beginner archery class for ages 7 and up will be offered Wednesdays, Aug. 31–Sept. 21 from 4–5…

By Marguerite Jill Dye Killington is a Mecca for athletes where skiing, snowboarding, mountain biking, running, and hiking abound. Such “sportivities” (my invention and not in the dictionary) foster fitness, discipline, and competition and require goal setting and striving for excellence. Watching the exciting Olympic events on television and Killington’s full summer and year round…

The ads for “Back to School” items have been appearing in flyers for most of August. They bring back memories that are happy ones for me. Back in the 1950s every neighborhood in Rutland had a public school close by. I would have attended parochial school at Christ the King but they didn’t have a…

Today’s run was wet. Really wet. I went on vacation recently and took about seven days off from training, so am really not feeling anything about a Spartan race, but part of me wants to see what I can do starting from basically nothing. Realistically though, I am not starting from nothing, I am starting…

By Joe Rankin You can pretty much count on a tree to stay in one place, at least in the real world. Not so in fiction. Remember the walking, talking Ents in the Lord of the Rings movies? Or Groot, the tree-like alien in the science fiction film “Guardians of the Galaxy?” Roots anchor a…

In August, the musician Frank Ocean self-distributed a 366-page zine called “Boys Don’t Cry.” Alongside photography and poetry, the zine (an album release tie-in) made room for an unannotated list of Frank Ocean’s 100 favorite movies—although it wasn’t numbered, so the only way you would know that he’d aimed for a round sum was if…

Dear editor, As I write this, the day promises to be sunny, pleasant and dry, hinting of fall—the same weather that followed in the wake of Tropical Storm Irene, August 28-29, 2011. Vermonters had been forewarned of a hurricane moving in our direction and we expected wind—the kind that flattened whole stands of timber in…

By Cal Garrison, a.k.a. Mother of the Skye This week’s Horoscopes are coming out under the light of a Leo Moon, on the heels of a Mercury/Venus/Jupiter conjunction at the 28th Degree of Virgo. This is a totally beneficent trinity that will mean different things to different people. On the surface it has the potential…

Cal Garrison (a.k.a Mother of the Skye) writes weekly horoscopes for The Mountain Times. If you would like an emailed notification sent to you weekly, sign up for the newsletter, below. Want to hear more from Mother of the Skye? Check out Mother's Celestial Inspirations for a deeper look into this weeks horoscopes Horoscopes for…

Friday, Saturday, & Sunday, Sept. 2-4—WOODSTOCK—Home of the longest continuously running 100-mile trail ride in the country, the Green Mountain Horse Association (GMHA) will celebrate its trail heritage with its annual Distance Days on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, Sept. 2-4. Trail rides will range from the six-mile pleasure ride to the flagship 80th anniversary 100-mile…

Friday, Sept. 2 at 5 p.m.—BRANDON—Brandon Artists Guild ushers in the highest season in Vermont with an all-member show, “Colors of Fall.” The exhibit—on display from Sept. 1 through Oct. 31— features a collection of work done in many different media, including paintings in oil, watercolor, acrylics, and pastel. Also, mixed media, mobiles, ceramics, stoneware,…

Friday, Sept. 2 at 7 p.m.—QUECHEE—Join Kind Bud for an evening of acoustic original looping at The Public House at Quechee Gorge on Friday, Sept. 2 for a 7 p.m. show. One half of New England’s premier acoustic guitar jam duo The Kind Buds, Bud is eager to launch his new project, “Kind Dubs.” On the jam…