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

Crested Butte

July 2, 2010

Finding place to camp in the dark can be tough. Sometimes a spot will look great in the headlights of the truck but when the daylight reveals your surroundings you are in somebody’s front yard, in a city park or just in a weird spot. My roadtrip companions and I arrived in Crested Butte well after dark, we drove out of town and started searching.

We drove for about 5 minutes and found a road leading into some trees. We were tired of driving so we picked our spot quickly.

In the morning I didn’t know what to expect. I unzipped my tent and had a look at an amazing mountain valley and a clear river. Not bad! Needless to say we were quite happy with our lucky camp location. Check out the pic.

After breakfast we headed to a trail called Doctor Park. After a tough climb we dropped in. UNBELIEVABLE descent. So fast. I actually can’t describe it, it was so good. All I know is that I will definitely be back to ride this one again.

A good camp dinner around the campfire, a ride in the morning and then tomorrow we leave the cool high country to go roast in the desert. Look out Fruita/Grand Junction!

Good times.

See you on the trail.

Matt

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