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Eric Martin, one of the owners of Wilderness Voyageurs, took part in the Trail Town Sustainability Summit. Read what they had to say "After a warm welcome from Cathy McCollom, director of the Trail Town Program (and fair-trade coffee from Reilly’s Best in Ohiopyle) Eric Martin...

03 March, 2012

A good town bike for the guides needs to do three things: 1: Be mechanically sound enough to make trips from the store to town all day. 2: Keep employees off of our nice Cannondale Comfort rental bikes. 3: Survive drunken crashes. With those things in mind, I grabbed a can of...

13 February, 2012

Some new Pyranha Shivas were delivered yesterday From the Pyranha guys: The Shiva has a rounded hull, soft stern chines, a high bow rocker and loads of volume in the bow and stern. These features give you softer landings on big drops, rear driving force when you want...

06 February, 2012

Zane demonstrates the German Shepard carrying feature built into the Astral Bird Dog K9 PFD: And the foot uglifying feature built into camo muck boots. posted by Montana...

21 January, 2012

V-brakes are used on almost all hybrid bikes and most older mountain bikes. They're simple, powerfull and easy to adjust. Here's how to work on them. For this job, you'll need a small philips or flathead screwdriver and a 5mm hex wrench: The brakes are adjustable at...

20 January, 2012

Yesterday we got a shipment of Princeton Tec headlights: I'm on my second Princeton Tec EOS Bike light, and I'm perfectly happy with it. It's bright enough for trail running in the dark, lasts a long time on three AAA batteries, and is tough enough to be...

14 January, 2012

The Mountain Hardwear Monkey Man jacket is the best fleece I've ever worn. Actually, it's the best jacket I've ever worn. I bought mine five years ago, and I've worn it on almost every chilly day since then. I run in it, mountain bike in it, then...

09 January, 2012

We're finally getting our first significant snow here in Ohiopyle: Town is pretty deserted this time of year, and the snow definently ads to the isolated feeling. But that's not a bad thing. Now I have time to do all the things I could only dream of...

03 January, 2012

The KATY Trail is a  237 mile rail trail that crosses almost the entire state of Missouri.  Once a thriving railroad corridor, it is now a Missouri State Park and home to the longest rail trail in the United States.   The Wilderness Voyageurs Bike...

09 September, 2011

The main reason we pack up the rods and head to western Colorado in September is because of the out-of-this world trout fishing, but the overall relaxation index for this trip is right around 10.  This year that is ramped up to about 11 with...

01 August, 2011