Sense of Place: More Than Skinnies & Singletrack: A History of Mountain Biking in Post Canyon

Unlike most counties in the Pacific Northwest, Hood River County managed to keep local control of its forests following the Great Depression. In the ensuing decades, timber revenue proved essential to the Hood River community. Logging funded services like public health and law enforcement (still does), and the forest offered a place for hunting and fishing - as it had done throughout human history in the Gorge.
But when mountain bikers began to show up on forestland - especially in a place now known as Post Canyon - a place that was already working so hard for its local community, it was about to be asked to do even more.
What did mountain bikers see in the clay soils and rolling terrain of Post Canyon? How would this local workhorse-of-a-forest change in the ensuing decades as a result, and what might its future hold?
Join Gary Paasch, Arthur Babitz, and Doug Thiesies as they re-introduce us to Post Canyon and share what it took for a community, a sport, and a forest, to try and co-exist.