Cycle and Style

By Peta Owens-Liston Maggie Matthes laughs as she recalls riding behind one of the riders on the 100-mile White Rim Trail that undulates along the rim, on the edge of Island in the Sky in Canyonlands National Park. After 24 miles the previous day of pushing pedal and maneuvering, the woman had rigged a pillow [...]

“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country [...]