The dollars that you pay at a local outfitter are directly going back to their family, their home, their schools, local shops… and that’s really important.

Meg Carney, Outdoor Minimalist

The less things that I own, the less things I really have to worry about, and the more I can focus on the things that I actually really love and enjoy, which are community and time spent outside.

Kristina Cannon, Main Street Skowhegan

You have to create communities for your people that live there, first. It’s not just about tourism for us. It can’t be. It has to be about building a better community.

Voices of Rooted MTB Festival

I haven’t met a single person that regrets going. Just people that regret not going.

Rooted MTB Festival Weekend Recap with Trish & Jen

These events really make you realize, like, what the hell is my problem, I’m just as capable as everyone else here.

Cail Casserly, Brewer, Rider and Poet

If we’re out there enjoying a thing, I try to be conscious of, who am I not seeing? If this was hard for me, who’s it harder for? And I hope that that thought continues to foster other things, in terms of my activism, my work and my passions.

Chrystsonthy Drellos, Blue Sky MTB

If I had $1 for every time I wanted to throw my bike into the woods and stomp off, I’d be a millionaire.

Heather Kinal, Ride Cosmic Dirt & Rooted MTB Festival

The way I operate is when I’m excited about something, I’m very passionate, and I go all in and try to bring as many people with me as possible.

Sandy Noble

My main sport, for 31 years now, it’s been mountain biking. Even after after my husband’s death, within a few days, I was in the woods….anybody that’s been through anything, you know, exercise is just a great way to relieve a lot of stress and sadness.

Jen Hazard, Author of The Maine Play Book

I came to recognize it as I was older…. just going to a new space, and exploring like that, that really always just inspires me, no matter what.

Lauren Humphrey of Outside Perspectives

Our goal is mainly to get more kids outside. And more often.

Jennifer Klein, PhD, The Trustees of Reservations

We have to connect [nature] to where people live, and get our programs to talk more about a greater bio region, rather than ‘nature is here. And it’s not here.’