Mountain Bikers of Santa Cruz and Bones Over Metal Team Up to Hold Santa Cruz Mountain Bike Festival Featuring Awesome Land: Women of Dirt
Two-Day Mountain Bike Festival in Santa Cruz Brings Professional Female Mountain Bike Riders Including Lisa Myklak, Emily Johnston, and Tammy Donahugh
The film Awesome Land: Women Of Dirt looks through the eyes of the wondrous women that have helped grow the sports of gravity mountain biking, downhill racing, dirt jumping and free riding. Featured riders Lisa Myklak, Emily Johnston, and Tammy Donahugh will present at the premier, along with the filmmaker Mark Brent. There will be a Q&A session with the guests moderated Karen Kefauver, a freelance sports and travel journalist who authors the cycling column, Spin City for the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
Our goal is to support local riding groups like MBoSC and cycling non-profits to host regional shows and share the 'awesomeness' the mountain bike has to offer. We want to give back to the community, and we want to do this in a way that the local organizations and promoters get to keep all the funds raised, said film producer Mark Brent.
The film premier is just one event tied to a greater two-day Mountain Bike Festival, sponsored by MBoSC and several others, including Fox Racing Shocks, Black Market Racing, Gamut.USA, Light and Motion, Barry Swenson Builders, and a number of local bike shops including Bike Station Aptos. Pending good weather, events held in conjunction with the premier include an open group ride through the Soquel Demonstration Forest and Demo Day at Bike Station Aptos on Feb. 27, and a Pump Track and Jump Jam at the entrance of Nisene Marks Park hosted by Epicenter Cycling on Feb. 28. For additional information on the group ride and Jump Jam, please check out the MBoSC website at www.mbosc.org.
As one of the largest mountain bike organizations in Santa Cruz, MBoSC has and continues to lead efforts to keep the Soquel Demonstration Forest (SDF) open and in good working order, as the park offers mountain bikers some of the best and most challenging trails in the Bay Area. Proceeds from the festivities will go directly toward efforts to rebuild and reopen the SDF parking lot, which has been closed due to environmental issues.
For additional information about MBoSC, the Santa Cruz Mountain Bike Festival, and the California premier of Awesome Land: Women of Dirt please email Courtney Dimpel at cdimpel@gmail.com.
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About Mountain Bikers of Santa Cruz
Mountain Bikers of Santa Cruz (MBoSC) is an IRC 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization which is dedicated to the promotion of mountain biking in a healthy and environmentally sound manner. MBOSC is an affiliate club of the International Mountain Biking Association (IMBA). MBoSC was founded in 1997 to raise money towards the purchase of the Gray Whale Ranch that was added to Wilder Ranch State Park.
