Sun Valley, Idaho (Ski Press)-48Straight Heads to Mountain Creek, NJ,on August 23rd for an all day event with all the mountain bike action happening in the Diablo Freeride Park.

Beijing? Who needs it... 

While slalom and sprint paddlers duke it out at the Beijing Olympics in August, their downriver counterparts did so in the lesser-known sport of wildwater racing—perhaps one of paddling’s truest tests of all-around ability-- August 1-3, 2008 on the mountain town of Charlemont, Mass.’s Deerfield River at the USA Wildwater National Championships hosted by the Zoar Outdoor Center.

Mountains have them, municipalities have them, so why shouldn’t waterways have trails that keep you on a chosen route? Luckily, there are such things. They’re called water trails, and the trend is gaining momentum like a tandem canoe after a couple of well-orchestrated strokes. Here are five top ones to set your sights on:

So some states were easier than others. Still, there was nothing was easy about the feat --or the feet that carried them to the record books.

From mountains like McKinley in Alaska and Whitney in California to lower highpoints like the summits of Florida and Delaware, Denver schoolteacher Mike Haugen and partner Zach Price were on a nonstop quest that ended July 25 when they reached the top of their 50th state highpoint, 13,796-foot Mauna Kea in Hawaii. In doing so, the duo established a new record for the fastest…

A whole lot of blisters later, Montrail, a leader in high-performance trail running footwear, has announced the winners of its 2007-2008 Montrail Ultra Cup series -- without the results of the Western States 100.