Tag: duthie hill
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Evergreen Mountain Bike Festival June 11-12th 2016 at King County’s Duthie Hill Park
It’s time for the annual Evergreen Mountain Bike Festival at King County’s Duthie Hill Park. It’s TWO DAYS this year which means more venders, demos, skill clinics and beer than ever before! Check out the list of vendors and demo fleets attending. This is an event for the whole family so bring your munchkins to…
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Duthie Hill – Giving back.
3 years of stories, skills, exercise, participating, engaging, being outdoors. Great kid, great partner. http://www.pinkbike.com/v/embed/400855/?colors=C80000
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Geared up, triple packed and ready to ride!
Meet Dad Mountain Biker! Favorite Trail at Duthie Hill Park: Bootcamp Favorite Pre-ride Music: Macklemore Frequently Overused Phrase: “That’s hip!” Favorite Critical, but Non-essential Gear: Lip balm The multiple bikes and gear are packed inside, outside and on top of the car, double checked and the thrill is written all over Dad Mountain Biker’s face…
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Dirt and Bike Lovers Paradise: The Evergreen Mountain Bike Festival
For the hard-core, adrenaline seeking mountain bikers or those flirting with the idea of giving it a try for the first time and everyone in-between, come join us for the annual Evergreen Mountain Bike Festival at King County Parks’ Duthie Hill Mountain Bike Park. There will be lots to see and do with 40+ vendors,…
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“If she can do it, I can do it.”
The Scene: A 12-year-old girl looks on as an impressive number of pro female riders compete in the Sweetlines Sugar Showdown hosted at Duthie Hill Park, the first all-female freeride competition of its kind in the northwestern United States. Then, the 12-year-old girl gets on her own bike and takes first place in the amateur division. That’s not…
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Duthie Hill Mountain Bike Park: Mountain Bike Fest
Duthie Hill Mountain Bike Park: Mountain Bike Fest, a photo by kingcountyparks on Flickr. Duthie: Then & now slideshow. Thought we’d blast you with “The evolution of a bike park” from our Flickr feed. The Mountain Bike Fest was a hit. A lot of vendors, bikes, kids and smiling dirty faces. If you are too…
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Field Notes: Last spike + volunteers = Trail complete in Grand Ridge Park!
On Thurs, Feb 23, after 77 days and more than 4,600 volunteer hours of work over the course of 17 months, volunteers from Washington Trails Association put the last spike into the 600-foot-long boardwalk across the north hemlock bog in Grand Ridge Park. For 10 years, WTA volunteers have been building and improving Grand Ridge’s…
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2011 King County Parks Highlights Reel, Part 1
This year has been a busy one here at King County Parks – we’ve added some new acres here and there, converted a few muddy old fields to synthetic turf, and removed a heck of a lot blackberries. Here’s the highlights reel: New stuff! Paved 1.2 miles of the East Lake Sammamish Trail in Redmond,…
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Parks swag for your bag
This shirt right here not only has the ability to make you instantly awesome, it will also give you wicked awesome karma. Yes karma, because all proceeds from Parks swag supports King County Parks – Your Big Backyard. And for those of you especially devoted to a certain bike park we also have…
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Who cares? YOU do!
Here at KC Parks, we’d like to say a hearty Thank You to all the volunteers who came out on Friday, September 24 for the annual United Way “Day of Caring”. In addition to playing hooky from work, the volunteers working in King County’s parks weeded, mulched, cleared litter, removed invasives, planted natives, and much…
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Duthie = media hog
Check out the latest appearance of Duthie Hill Mountain Bike Park in this trailer for Howell at the Moon Productions “Pedal Driven“. EPIC!!!
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Duthie Hill Dash – XC Mountain Bike Race this Saturday
Saturday, June 19 – 9 a.m. Subway’s Washington Games presents Cross-country Mountain Bike Race Come watch riders of all ages careen down a course through Duthie’s much-celebrated new mountain bike park. Featuring more than five miles of trails that are suitable for riders of all experience levels, Duthie Hill’s mountain bike park offers banked turns,…
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It’s on like Donkey Kong this weekend!!!
It has been crazy here prepping for this weekend, and now it is finally upon us. Welcome to the awesome storm that is the weekend of May 22nd, 2010. Duthie Hill Mountain Bike Park grand opening. Saturday May, 22nd 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Ribbon cutting at 11:30 a.m. Raffle, beer garden and BBQ. Directions…
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Duthie Hill Mountain Bike Park screen time
King 5’s Evening Magazine aired their first Duthie Hill Mountain Bike Park piece last night. Click here to see it in all its glory. Remember kids don’t try these moves at home…do it at the park.
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Duthie Hill Mountain Bike Park owned by an 8 year old
Footage from Vholder.com of a little man doing one of the runs at Duthie. Great example of an all-ages bike park. Enjoy, and thanks to seattlefathead for loading it up.
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Duthie Hill Mountain Bike Park – Seattle Times sneak peek
Seattle Times did a walk-through of the Duthie Hill Mountain Bike Park (opening in May). Give it a read, peruse the photos, and watch the video over at their site or in today’s Outdoors Section…minus the video of course.
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Grand Opening: Duthie Hill Mountain Bike Park
That’s right kids it’s official, the grand opening will be May 22. In the meantime Parks staff and the Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance are putting finishing touches on what is sure to be an amazing bike park. Stay tuned “We’re at work so you can play”.
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Progress on Duthie Hill Mountain Bike Park
We went out to meet Mike Westra of Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance (EMBA) to take a look at their progress on the Duthie Hill Mountain Bike Park. EMBA does some impressive work!