Below, you’ll find a gallery from mountain bike legend Matt Hunter of glimpses from trails he’s ridden around the world. We find them tantalizing, calming and inspiring, and hope that they can bring you some of the same. Hunter has been a positive and inspiring presence in mountain biking for nearly two decades. He has laid down more than his fair share of mind-blowing freeride moves over the years, and held parts in pretty much every feature film that groms were wearing out DVD players watching. More recently, his passion for two wheels and where they take us was on full display in his ‘Trail Hunter’ series; which shared communities and adventures all around the world. He was born and raised and still lives in Kamloops, British Columbia, but if Hunter surfaces on Instagram these days, it’s often with an incredible view like the shots below.
A few words of reflection, from Photo & Video Editor Satchel Cronk:
We’re mountain bikers, and singletrack is our solace. Lines of dirt, decorated with rocks, leaves, grass and the marks of compatriots that came before us. Bends and straights that arc, tantalizingly and satisfyingly, into the distance. One of mankind’s oldest and most natural creations, trails are tools that have always connected us to each other, near and far. In our times, they’ve become not just bridges between places, but links to less tangible locales—to that clear and balanced headspace that is only found on a long climb, or to a flow-state; that mode of clarity combined with exhilaration that you feel once, and are hooked on forever.
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