Julie Brown is a freelance journalist based in Reno, Nevada. She often heads into the Sierra Nevada mountains to ski, bike, climb and hike. A former managing editor at Powder magazine and a former contributing mountain bike editor for the Co-op Journal, her work has been published in the San Francisco Chronicle, SFGATE, Tahoe Quarterly, the Ski Journal, and more. REI member since 2010.
In California, the Mendocino Complex Fire, the largest wildfire in the state’s history, has burned more than 300,000 acres—largely on national forest land—and a...
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When you show up to a new place with your mountain bike in tow, it can be hard to figure out where to start pedaling. Between Strava and the MTB Project, Instag...
The USA Cycling Marathon Mountain Bike National Championships go down every year on a rugged course just shy of 50 miles that loops through rural Arkansas. Last...