STOWE, Vt. (WCAX) – People are rolling out their bikes and shredding up some trails.
“This is a really good time and we don’t have any snow down our way. We had a little bit of snow, a little bit of fat biking around thanksgiving. Now it is pretty much just dirt,” said biker Ryan Frost.
Frost has been coming to Vermont to go fat biking for several years now. He thinks he’ll definitely be making a few more trips in the next few weeks as New Hampshire, where he is from, doesn’t have as much snow.
“I mean the bikes are heavier. It’s usually slower, a lot more work. But we get a bunch of buddies out there and you’re just having a good time in the woods. One person falls down and everybody else falls down on top of them. It is just a riot,” said Frost.
With fresh snow on the ground Ranch Camp in Stowe and Mountain Bike Vermont hosted the 14th annual Uberwintern Fat Bike Festival.
Over two hundred people from all over come to bike the trail system at ranch camp all day long. Organizers say the trials are a little choppy but Vermont is one of the only states in new England with enough snow for this activity.
“We have elevation so the snow sticks around. Fat Biking is very much weather and conditions dependent. This year has been pretty good so far. It is interesting that when the skiing tends to go a little sideways, where it might be icy up on the ski hill. That is when fat biking is typically in it’s prime,” said Ryan Thibault, of Ranch Camp.
And the fat bike fanatics are having a great time.
“Things started getting a little soft, a little sloppy. It was really good early on. Soft on the edges. If you went off that little skinny patch, you were making a snow angel for sure,” said Chris Kochanski of Brownsville.
