Featured Publications
The Mountain Times puts out a number of featured publications/magazines each year. Find these specialty offerings here as e-edition flipbooks.
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How to take the best flicks of your tricks
June 27, 2025
To take the best photos of mountain bike tricks, focus on the technique, composition, and timing. Tips compiled from experts can help you capture dynamic shots, accurately capturing (and even slightly enhancing) the extreme nature of the feat. By combining these techniques, you can create stunning, action-packed images that truly capture the excitement and skill…
Tricks defined
June 27, 2025
Mountain biking is as much about skill and style as it is about speed and endurance. Whether you’re a beginner or looking to expand your trick repertoire, here are some of the most popular and accessible mountain bike tricks, along with brief explanations and tips for learning them. Intermediate tricks Tabletop: The rider tilts the bike…
Tips to maintaining your bike
June 27, 2025
Staff report So, you bought a mountain bike. Well done! You’ve now got a few epic rides under your belt. Excellent. But now you wonder how to best protect your investment and keep it rolling like new. While there are many expert bike mechanics around locally that can help, here are a few basic things…
Vermont Adaptive partners with G-Form
June 27, 2025
In a breakthrough for adaptive sports gear, impact protection innovator G-Form has launched an adaptive riding bib—the first padded base layer bib explicitly designed for adaptive mountain biking (aMTB). Developed in partnership with Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports, the new product provides targeted protection and seated comfort for athletes with disabilities, addressing long-standing challenges in…
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Trails accessible for all abilities expand
June 27, 2025
Vermont Adaptive Ski & Sport empowers individuals with disabilities by providing access and instruction to sports and recreational activities and aiding independence. Vermont Adaptive has a fleet of over 50 mountain bikes — including 15 three-wheeled bikes and over 40 two-wheeled bikes — that help riders of all abilities enjoy both trail and lift-serve mountain…
E-bikes allow riders to go farther
June 27, 2025
E-bikes, or electric bicycles, help riders enjoy cycling and travel longer distances by combining human pedaling with electric motor assistance. This hybrid approach addresses several common barriers to riding, making cycling more accessible and enjoyable for a wider range of people. Here are a few benefits of pedal-assistance: Reduced physical barriers: E-bikes make cycling accessible…
Digging in: For Graham Farrington, building trails is a way of life
June 27, 2025
By Katy Savage Graham Farrington first started building trails at 13 years old. He was a student in Woodstock with a bike and a shovel and he found joy in shaping the land behind his house into something rideable. It wasn’t just about mountain biking. It was about being outside, touching the earth, and working…
From backyard trails: Gavin Vaughn’s path to shaping Woodtock’s ride
June 27, 2025
By Katy Savage Before Gavin Vaughn was the head trail builder for the Woodstock Area Mountain Bike Association (WAMBA), he was just a kid digging in the dirt behind his house. Like many in the mountain biking world, his passion started early—and close to home. “I grew up with bikes,” Vaughn said. “I learned how…
Ride hut-to-hut: Vermont debuts first long-distance, overnight trail loop
June 27, 2025
By Katy Savage A new 38-mile backcountry trail connecting Rochester and Pittsfield is giving outdoor adventurers a unique way to experience Vermont’s rugged terrain and its small-town charm. The trail, called the Heart of the Greens Loop, opened last summer and it’s the first completed segment of the Velomont Trail, a statewide 485-mile project aiming…
Trail expansions, construction closures
June 27, 2025
Killington Resort filed an Act 250 permit with the state on May 6, 2025, for a new mountain bike trail. It’s an amendment to its existing permit “for the addition of a blue or intermediate level mountain biking trail within the existing Ramshead mountain bike trail network,” according to the Act 250 application. “The trail…
U.S. Open: Racing through the forestand throwing tricks high in the sky
June 27, 2025
The Fox US Open of Mountain Biking returns again to Killington Resort on Sept. 25-28. Professional and amateur athletes from around the world will compete in the Open Class Downhill for one of the largest cash purses in racing. As always, the Fox U.S. Open also offers amateur racing classes in Downhill and Dual Slalom.…
WAMBA debuts Triple Crown Throwdown
June 27, 2025
By Polly Mikula Mountain biking events are growing with the popularity of the sport. But new large-scale events require a huge amount of logistic coordination and manpower — creating one that spans the town of Woodstock connecting three trail networks for hundreds of mountain bikers is certainly a big feat. But that’s exactly what the…
Local mountain bike events
June 27, 2025
The Prouty, Hanover, N.H. July 12 Enjoy some of the best single and double track traveling through the Oak Hill and Trescott Lands trails. Riders can choose between a novice/intermediate 8-mile loop or an intermediate/advanced 17-mile loop with 1,100 and 2,400 feet of climbing respectively. A rider-led staggered start will launch in three waves. The…
Weekly mountain bike group rides
June 27, 2025
KILLINGTON Base Camp Group Ride, Saturdays A free group ride departs at 8 a.m. at Base Camp Bike & Ski at the intersection of Route 4 and Killington Road in Killington. The ride is for intermediate to advanced riders and will be 1.5-2 hours long. Trails will include Base Camp/Sherburne, and Gifford Woods trail networks.…
Calling all ladies to the Divas of Dirt
June 27, 2025
By Polly Mikula “Whether you’re just starting out or have years on the trail, this program is all about riding together, building confidence, and sharing a passion for the sport,” Killington Resort states on its website. The group rides focus on learning and practicing skills in a supportive and fun environment. Skills covered include: body position,…
Woodstock debuted varsity mountain bike team
June 27, 2025
Mountain biking was such a popular club sport at Woodstock Union High School that it’s been elevated to a varsity sport— the only public school varsity mountain biking team in the state. “They’re very serious athletes competing at some of the top national levels,” said Matt Stout, a member of the Woodstock Area Mountain Bike…
Future riders: Young and old
June 27, 2025
Mountain biking is a versatile and rewarding activity that has increasingly included the very young and old as beginner trails proliferate and bike technology advances. The sport not only offers physical benefits, but also important mental health and social benefits. Ben Colona, owner of Base Camp Bike & Ski in Killington and formerly the manager…
Mountain biking has changed summer
June 27, 2025
By Polly Mikula Over the past few years, the surge in mountain biking has grown to the point that it’s fundamentally changed the experience of summer in Vermont. There is a vitality in regions with trail systems that simply wasn’t there a decade ago. The influx of riders has spurred the growth of lodging, restaurants,…
Popularity: mountain biking expands
June 27, 2025
By Polly Mikula Mountain biking in Vermont is the state’s fastest-growing form of outdoor recreation, according to the Vermont Mountain Bike Association (VMBA) a nonprofit established in 1997 that provides advocacy, education, and community-driven stewardship statewide and to local chapters. “The growth of the sport has been exponential,” said Mark Harris, a Woodstock Area Mountain Bike…
