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Dan, your pictures are beautiful as usual, the story well written. My point was not that you should not poach trails. My point (and lots of comments above apparently) is that you should not publish about it here. Hiking vs Biking vs Horse riding is still an actual debate. Look at Bern, they want to close trails to MTB. And if you're a CHamonix local, you know how hard it was to get new trails open to biking. The anti-bikes are certainly aware of PB, and this article is a Xmas gift to them. They show it to the authorities and next week we lose another trail.

Please PB take this offline ASAP, you're just killing the future of MTBiking in Europe with this kind of shit. You people from North America forget that in the Alps, you can't just find a new place to ride, ride it until it is trashed and then move to the next place (spent 2 years in Canada, seen it) . We don't have this kind of space in the Alps. We have to share the space with the other users and preserve it for the future users. If we don't we will just get off the game pretty soon...

Enduro not gaining traction in North America because the Euros are cheater... that was a nice try RC! I think it is not gaining traction because there are simply no infrastructures for that kind of race in NA....

Words - I will check back in 500 years ;-)

then stay in BC sicko... if the hikers wants to kill you they must have a reason. As for myself, I just spent two year in Canada. What I can say is that there is no MTB paradise on either side of the ocean. There is room for improvement everywhere. Here we lack more BC-like bikeparks; the ones we have a over-crowded. In Canada, the number of mountain trails is extremely limited, with respect to the available space, and it is very frustrating to drive for hours through beautiful mountains to finally reach one with a trail.

It would have been really cool and fair if the location/photog/rider were not known. Right now it feels like a Euro vs Canada vs US contest more than photo contest...

He looks like he might need a new pair of glasses, staring at what's on the trail 2ft in front of him...

Sometimes I love this sport (for example wen I am riding), sometimes I hate it (e.g. right now after reading this...)