This story is the final installment of our five-part series examining the intersection of climate change and mountain biking. In it, we explore how climate change is affecting the places and people of our sport, and likewise turn the lens on ourselves as a contributing factor in one of the greatest challenges of our time.
“Are there any rattlesnakes around here?” I ask Dave Wiens when I meet him on a warm October afternoon at Hartmans Rock, Colorado. Just downslope from the alpine wonderland of Crested Butte, the town of Gunnison sits instead in high desert—a landscape I’m not super familiar with. Wiens tells me there are snakes, but they’re sleepy and slow right now. He is anything but, with sinews swollen from having hammered 5 miles from town to meet me in a parking lot I drove to—all so I could ask him what his organization is doing about climate change and mountain biking.
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