Don Cook Crested Butte Pioneer
Original Features
Kamloops Travel Guide
It’s rare when trails built during the formative years of mountain biking still hold up to today’s standards. And, rightly so, it was a...
I winced, gritted my teeth and curled my fingers behind my brake levers as I pedaled straight into a thicket of pigweed, catclaw acacia and seedy...
The 237 acres of waterfront property adjacent to downtown Bellingham, Washington, sat in heavily-contaminated uncertainty when Brandon Watts and Eric...
On a rare rainy week in the Sonoran Desert, Kate Van Roekel juts out her tongue in concentration as she confidently navigates an upper section of the...
Reviews
Eager consumers of bike rumors won’t be surprised that Santa Cruz is transitioning from its recent Nomad launch to an all-new, Horst link...
My job is funny. I hold two contrasting worlds of mountain biking in each hand, and have to reconcile them in my head. Professionally, I exist in an...
A few months ago, around the holidays, I wrote this piece covering my favorite pieces of gear from 2025. But, lurking in every photo of the Trek Fuel...
Welcome to Issue 17.2
This issue of Freehub, loosely woven together with themes of community, is lined with examples of mountain bikers helping mountain bikers for nothing other than sheer love of the sport. Danielle Baker writes about the all-too-short life of Matthew “Mattmo” Jeromkin and the trail that sprung up in his honor, now cared for by Nanaimo’s mountain bike community. Betsy Welch writes about Maui’s steady ascent toward building legal places to ride. Ben Haggar shares nuances from Japan’s riding scene—home to an interesting mix of strict adherence to cultural norms while also striving for progression. And, finally, in the feature “A Gift for Giving,” Brice Minnigh details the life of Don Cook, a Crested Butte icon at the forefront of so much development that we now take for granted in the bicycling world.
