DEPARTMENTS Editor’s Note RidesZapata Espinoza breaks down T-Brown’s Manitou FS. Of Bikes and BeerDan Loftus resists the slippery slope to socks and sandals. Spolks: Ascutney Trails AssociationSki town turned bike town, West Windsor, Vermont, invests in singletrack. Gallery Maker: Abbey Bike ToolsJason Quade makes the precision tools he wished he had as a race mechanic. Tailwind CHAPTERS Ridden Beyond GravityMeet the seven women who competed in the first ever women’s Red Bull Rampage. Sheep ThrillsIceland’s ecosystems are fragile. Bike tires are not. So mountain bikers are getting creative. America FirstCan a new generation of American women bring more cross-country World Cup races back home? Broken We Did It With LoveErik Mathy sits down with Dirt Rag founder Maurice Tierney to chat legacy and industry. Time PiecesRevisit the bikes, parts, tools and more that progressed the sport of mountain biking. Dropped We Took You ThereMountain Flyer turns 20. We look back at all the places we’ve gone together. Banks to Berms, Slides to PixelsMountain Flyer’s longtime photographers open up about favorite photos and a changing media landscape. —— On the cover: The snowy profile of Mocho-Choshuenco, a glaciated compound stratovolcano in central Chile, doesn’t immediately scream mountain biking. Leave it to Josh Lewis, Ludo May and Bruno Long to find an epic line regardless. On a sunset session, Lewis and May carve through the loose, volcanic rock, likened by Long to “powder turns for mountain bikes” on Mocho-Choshuenco. Bruno Long Department contents: New trail development isn’t always welcome by landowners and local governments, but in Queenstown, New Zealand, that’s not the case. “The fall lines off Coronet Peak now contain a collection of amazing flow trails,” says photographer Sterling Lorence who captured Eddie and Wyn Masters enjoying the fruits of the network. “How lucky are we,” says Lorence. Sterling Lorence
