Shore: Mountain Biking

shore: Reached by phone in North Vancouver, NSMBA program director Mark Wood told the Georgia Straight that his group's motto has never been more apt, according to Georgia Asian. We're writing the book on modern trail-building techniques and how it's applied in the Pacific Northwest, the 44-year-old said. That's the mission statement of the 2,500-member North Shore Mountain Bike Association, or NSMBA, a nonprofit volunteer organization formed in 1997. Mountain biking on the North Shore has grown from its infancy 20 years ago into adolescence in the early 2000s and, since NSMBA renewed our trail-building efforts in 2009, is now in the adult stage of progression. When it comes to mountain biking, we've only just begun to reinvent the North Shore, he said by phone. B.C. Bike Race organizer Dave Howells backed up Wood's assessment with one of his own. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.