Matt Hunter

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I was born in Kamloops, British Columbia in 1983. Singletrack zigzags through the hills behind my parents' house; bikes were freedom. I explored the hills and trails wherever and whenever I could. I was 12 when I got into XC racing. I was really into it until I was about 15, when I started focusing more on DH riding. Some of my friends who I raced with made the same transition, and we started to learn together. We started building big jumps and aggressive trails. We filmed ourselves riding and I made a short video. I entered the video in an online contest, the "Ultimate Freeride Challenge" and ended up winning. That was the beginning of my sponsored career in 2003. Specialized sponsored me then and I have been with Specialized ever since.

My focus has always been shooting photos and filming video segments, that is what I love to do. I really enjoy finding adventure in the mountains - whether it be challenging moves and airs or maybe it's a multiple day ride.

I like watching big mountain skiers and snowboarders, the way they shred the mountains in the snow inspires me on dirt. Besides riding, I surf, fish, and backcountry ski as much as I can.

Sponsors: Specialized, Shimano, Clif Bar, Chromag, MRP, IXS, Fox Racing Shox, Dakine, Contour

Shootin' some shots

June 9, 2010

Shootin' some shots

I have been on a lot of different photoshoots. Some of them are in the rain, some in the sun, deserts and jungles. It's always something different.

I did a shoot on the weekend, it was great. John Gibson came to Kamloops and we had a great day of sun. We went for a ride in the morning and shot some classic desert singletrack shots, then we headed for the higher hills and shot a drop that I rode on my Demo 8. It was a cool rock to rock natural drop with a perfect sheep trail runout at the bottom. I hit it a few times on my Demo and then remembered that I had my Enduro in the back of the truck. It really got me thinking and I decided to ride the line on my Enduro. It was perfect for the drop and the singletrack that followed.Check out the pic, my bike is on the takeoff and you can see the sheep trail runout below. Not a bad view too! It's really crazy to me how capable that bike is, it makes me want to ride it even more.

In fact I think I'll go ride it right now!

MH

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