Mountain Flyer | Number 62

[On the cover] Deep in Colorado's Elk Mountains, Dylan Stucki flows through a corridor of yellow and gold on a crisp late-September day. These fleeting moments of autumn high-country riding are always some of the best of the year. Joey Schusler FEATURES Our Land, Our Story Photographer Carl Zoch makes a pictorial argument for the protection of public lands. This issue's photo essay—highlighting adventures in places like Bears Ears National Monument, the Pacific Northwest and his own Colorado backyard—shows Zoch's intention to become more educated about how to advocate for the places we love to ride. Into the Maquis Wild rosemary, myrtle, thyme and cork oak make up the Corsican maquis, and as writer Louise Lintilhac discovers, rallying this mountainous Mediterranean island's steep trails may be the best way to shake out the cobwebs after a long Vermont winter. A Whole New World Mountain biking is far from the minds of most people who live in Richmond, California, an industrial city i