Riding the edge of Falls City

Most Oregonians probably haven’t heard of the Black Rock Mountain Biking Area, but the trail system — 1,000 acres of awesome amid the clear-cut Coast Range foothills west of Dallas — is getting noticed by the growing and gravity-averse freeride mountain biking community.

“I’ve personally talked to a fellow from New York, someone from Virginia and a guy from North Carolina,” said Troy Munsell, owner of Salem’s Santiam Bicycles, which sponsors a local trail-building group. “And we’ve had a guy from Ireland come twice.”

 – Excerpt from The Oregonian, January 26, 2007