SUN JOURNAL • October 10, 2021
“It’s exploding. It’s huge,” Andrew Marshall said about how popular mountain biking has become in Maine. Trail building never stopped in 2020 and it certainly did not let up in 2021. New gravity-fed trail systems were built at Saddleback ski area in Rangeley and at Sugarloaf in Carrabassett Valley. Volunteers added to the network of trails in Gorham, Brunswick, Millinocket, Bethel, Farmington and more. A group of teenage trail builders built four miles of new trail in Waterville, Augusta, Manchester and Fayette.