Go All In (and Bring Your 'Sisters' Along)

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Written By Jennifer Clark

Heather Kinal, Ride Cosmic Dirt & Rooted MTB Festival

Heather Kinal of Ride Cosmic Dirt rides her mountain bike down a forest trail

Today’s fabulous guest, Heather Kinal, is going to fuel our  PLAN-UARY mojo!

Heather is the organizer of the Rooted Women’s Mountain Bike Festival that will be happening in July; she’s one half of the super-terrestrial force behind Ride Cosmic Dirt, a new women’s mountain biking clothing brand that’s launching its Kickstarter any day now; she’s the founder of the Instagram community Sisters in Singletrack; and not surprisingly, she’s also an all around lovely person who loves connecting women to each other, and to new experiences.

Heather and I caught up right before she left her home base in the Buffalo New York area for a cross country traverse to meet up with Ride Cosmic Dirt’s co-badass, Ashley Duffus-Jambor. Even before her trip commenced, Heather and I covered a lot of ground - we talk about getting started in mountain biking, building confidence, yelling at the internet,  launching an apparel company during a pandemic, and why we need Rooted in our lives.

I know you’re going to want to join the camper caravan heading west in July after this one.

You should obviously follow Heather in all her places, she’s @heluvaheather, @sistersinsingletrack, and @rootedMTBfest on Instagram. 

And keep close eye on the Ride Cosmic Dirt universe, Heather and Ashley are hard at work relocating all of their inventory to Bellingham, and - news flash - getting the production of ALL of their products set up with a factory in LA.

Whether they hit their full-moon Kickstarter date or not, it’s coming right up, so maybe think about throwing some of that leftover holiday bonus money their way - there is nothing better than investing in women-owned businesses!

AND - don't forget, it’s Plan-uary!!  Time to put some dates on the calendar for safe outdoor fun this winter!:

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Jennifer Clark
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