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    on the rocks

    Sep 28, 2018 5 minutes

    by tess weaver strokes | photos: liam doran

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    ANY TRAIL NETWORK THAT KEEPS avid—even elite—mountain bikers from driving an easy 28 miles to the famed singletrack of Crested Butte, Colorado, is worth riding. I made that mental note last summer when I rode an alpine trail near Crested Butte with Jon Brown, a local rider who owns High Alpine Brewing Company in nearby Gunnison. It was August, and when Brown told me it was his first ride in Crested Butte that summer, I stared at him in disbelief. How? Why? “I ride Hartmans,” he replied. The following spring, the allure of the place deepened when I interviewed Dave Wiens, Gunnison legend and executive director of the International Mountain Bicycling Association, who admitted that he’ll go an entire season without riding ‘the Butte.’ As soon as

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