Hardtails of Doom and Generations of Awesome
Voices of the Rooted MTB Festival
Welcome to the second installment of our special Rooted Mountain Bike Festival recap!
I hope you’ll check this one out even if you’re not really into biking, because these conversations I had with other attendees of Rooted are more about what it means to be part of a women-centered event than anything else.
Sure, we talk bikes, but we also celebrate how awesome it is when you get together with people who have a lot of the same struggles and concerns and body types that you do.
Huge thanks to Jess D. for being part of planning this spectacular event, and to Rae F. as well for being so open and vulnerable - I honestly didn’t expect to get so deep in these recap conversations, but I think it’s really awesome to hear perspectives like this, to realize how much we all struggle sometimes, and how important being active, whatever that looks like, is to reconnecting with yourself and your value.
And of course, the hugest thanks of all go to Heather Kinal, who continues to hone her next- level connection skills and set the highest bar ever for festival rest-roomery! She's created a fantastic weekend that was well worth 20 hours of driving! (Maybe even better than Niagara Falls......) Save the dates for the next Rooted MTB Festival - July 21-23, 2023!
More fun stuff to check out:
Rae and her Inappropriate 26” Hardtail of Doom gettin’ it done
If you’re drinking my koolaid on this and can’t wait to hang with multiple generations of awesome, I hope you’ll consider joining us for our first-ever Guides Gone Wild End-of-Summer Camp Weekend that we’re hosting September 23-25 at Evans Notch Lodge in Gilead Maine. We’ll be doing a lot of paddling and crafting, but we’ll ALSO have a very cool add-on option for any of my TryAthlete team out there who might want to kick up their adrenaline a few notches and do some downhill mountain biking at nearby Mt. Abram on that Sunday the 25th - I’m totally stoked to go, mostly because I hate climbing and guess what, they put your bike on the ski lift for you, even the inappropriate 26” hard tails of doom!
But seriously, it’s wicked wicked WICKED fun, so come on over and get all the details on the weekend, and make sure you opt-in to our Sunday downhill adventure too!