Above: Photo taken from my bike while riding down the sidewalk in downtown Abingdon, Virginia. This was after we rode the Virginia Creeper Trail (it was the year before last, because when we rode last year, it was raining). Maybe when we go this fall we will have better weather.
Sidewalk on February 10th, 2007
Ski slopes + mountain biking? on February 6th, 2007
Above: View from the ski lift at Winterplace in West Virginia.
While I was in the mountains skiing not too long ago, I noticed that a handful of ski resorts offered mountain biking in the summer.
I was browsing the web and found this article about the risks of biking at ski areas. I read it more as background than as an assessment of the risks. It reported that approximately “158 NSAA member resorts reported having mountain bike trails at their areas, while 85 offer lift-serviced trails”. Well, I guess that’s more than a handful.
Does anyone have any experience with this? I thought it was an interesting concept. Would you go mountain biking on a ski slope?