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Montana ski area opening technical mountain bike trails

Mountain bikers make their way down one of the trails in the new skills park at the Discovery Ski Area near Butte, Mont. (Matt Dauenhauer)
By Rich Landers richl@spokesman.com(509) 459-5508
Mountain bikers make their way down one of the trails in the new skills park at the Discovery Ski Area near Butte, Mont. (Matt Dauenhauer)
Mountain bikers make their way down one of the trails in the new skills park at the Discovery Ski Area near Butte, Mont. (Matt Dauenhauer)

BICYCLING — The trend continues with alpine ski areas developing facilities for mountain bikers to enjoy during the summer season:

Montana ski area goes big on mountain bike features
Discovery Ski Area in Montana will open its opens new technical skills park for experienced mountain bike riders on Sunday, with a variety of wall rides, bridges, jumps and logs along the way down 1,050 vertical feet.

In the Spokane area:

  • Mount Spokane downhill trails are being planned and construction is underway.  Last weekend, Evergreen East organized The Warm Up Mt. Spokane benefit event, raising nearly $1000, attracted 30 volunteers who put in 170 hours of hard labor on trail construction, and brought together 26 riders for a total of 13 laps on a Mount Spokane course. A new Mountain Biking brochure and map details the existing riding opportunities at Mount Spokane.
  • A downhill and technical biking park has been created at Beacon Hill .

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Outdoors Blog." Read all stories from this blog