Mountain Bike

RIDE / Mountain Biking

Ride is a collaboration of the Stowe Mountain Bike Club board members and the staff of the Stowe Reporter. Mountain biking has really taken off in the Stowe area, which now has one of the best trail networks in the Northeast. Anybody can get into the sport; just like ski trails, mountain biking trails come with degrees of difficulty — beginner, intermediate and advanced. Beginners and children can feel comfortable on terrain designed for them; improving riders can move up to tougher trails whenever they’re ready; and experts can find plenty to challenge them in the woods. And did we mention how beautiful it is out there?

RIDE version 7: Onward, upward

By Tom Kearney | Stowe Reporter
Updated Jun 21, 2018
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Welcome to the seventh annual RIDE issue. We started publishing this mountain-bike section in 2012, when the sport’s popularity was just beginning to explode. Though there was considerable local interest in mountain biking, hardly anyone would have predicted its power as an economic engine, …

Bright future for Stowe Trails

By Evan Chismark
Updated Jun 21, 2018
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What if someone told you that you could take your passion, whatever it is — pottery, backgammon, Civil War re-enactment — and spend all day, every day, building a community around that passion?

Cady Hill rebounds after horrific windstorm

By Tommy Gardner | Stowe Reporter
Updated Jun 21, 2018
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Stowe’s Cady Hill Forest is on the mend much faster than really ought to be, because sometimes it takes a while for humans to pick up after Mother Nature.

Callagy’s Trail honors Stowe woman’s memory

By Caleigh Cross | Stowe Reporter
Updated Jun 21, 2018
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Callagy Fahey Ross would have loved the Sterling Forest mountain bike trail named in her honor, says her father, Bob Ross.

Bike network keeps expanding

By Kayla Collier | Stowe Reporter
Updated Jun 21, 2018
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In the last two decades, mountain biking has exploded across Vermont, and the Stowe-Waterbury-Morrisville area is one of the state’s hotspots.

Stowe Mountain Bike Club rider profile: Suzanne McNamara Danzig

Updated Jun 21, 2018
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• Hometown: Stowe and Allendale, N.J.

Stowe Mountain Bike Club rider profile: Mike Thomas

Updated Jun 21, 2018
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• Hometown: Stowe

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Stowe Mountain Bike Club rider profile: Chesley Smith

Updated Jun 21, 2018
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• Hometown: Stowe

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Stowe Mountain Bike Club rider profile: Brooke Kasman

Updated Jun 21, 2018
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• Hometown: Waterbury

Stowe Trails Partnership Thank You!

Updated Jun 21, 2018
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The Stowe Trails Partnership would like to extend a huge thank you to all of the members and partners that enable this organization to continue building, maintaining and protecting Stowe’s ever-expanding trail network. If you haven’t yet had a chance to join or renew for 2018, it’s not too l…