Like snowboarding, it’s taken some time, but it’s starting to gain some mainstream acceptance

• Like snowboarding, it’s taken some time, but it’s starting to gain some mainstream acceptance.

That’s why people like Simons want to see hikers, snowshoers and, yes, even skiers working together. He believes one group benefits another. But not everyone sees it that way.

“The cross-country ski community is an older community, and there’s a strong contingent in that community that is anti-bike,” Simons said. “But we tend to like the single-track solitude of the winter woods, and most single-track goes unused in the winter.”

Simons admits the older bikes made ruts in the snow, but the newer models, the ones used by the bulk of the fat bikers, don’t do that. The motto in Winter Park among fat bikers is to “leave a flat track.”

“If everyone follows that, that eliminates user conflicts,” Simons said.

Even the hardcore mountain bikers have embraced fat biking as their winter sport. Ty Hall owns the Tennessee Pass Nordic Center nearby Ski Cooper, and has held winter mountain-biking races for fun. The center just celebrated its 18th year of those races, so Hall was on the forefront of winter biking, something he prides himself on. Those races attracted as few as 15 bikers when they began. Now, the race attracts more than 200 riders, and nearly all of them use fat bikes.

“It’s amazing how much faster you can do on those,” Hall said, “and how much you can cruise on them.”

• Fat biking offers the kind of solitude you won’t find at the ski resorts.

Ski towns are beginning to embrace fat biking as another way to draw visitors. In fact, people are incorporating yurts and other overnight locations into their fat biking trails. Instead of ski or snowshoeing trips, people are taking fat biking trips now.

“It’s amazing how many people come to our Nordic center to ski, and then they go fat biking in the afternoon,” Hall said. “It’s not just a different way to enjoy cycling. It’s another way to enjoy the snow.”

But you can find that solitude even in places that seem overrun with people, such as the Brainard Lake Recreation Area, where people pack the trails in all seasons, especially the summer. Hackett enjoys riding with his friends on Tuesday nights.

“There are times when there’s not a single car in the parking lot,” Hackett said, “and it feels like we have the entire wilderness to ourselves. I feel all this gratitude. I just feel like ‘wow.’ And you can’t get that with skiing.”

 

Source:theknow.denverpost.com

 

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