{"id":2893,"date":"2022-02-06T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2022-02-05T09:00:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T17:00:23","slug":"turning-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=2893","title":{"rendered":"Turning 20!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How time flys! MountainBikeBill.com turns 20 today. When this thing started it were no smartphones, high speed data, GoPros and YouTube. Even a hand-held mapping GPS was a tough thing to come by in those days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From one of my earliest pages on the site. The top of Middle Peak in the Cuyamacas <\/a>April 2002<\/span>. Taken with a “baller” 1.2MP digital camera<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Thank you all for the motivation to share my love for the outdoors and mountain biking over the last 20 years!<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The site came about as more of a progression of information vice a thought out plan. While I do consider my time in the 80’s riding my 10 speed on old logging roads and game trails of North Carolina mountain biking (Or should dare to say Gravel Biking)<\/em>, I got into I got into modern MTBing in the late 90s here in San Diego. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Noble Canyon<\/a> – One of the handful of pages setup in the new format<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I love the exploring aspect of the sport and it was much more exploratory in nature back then. Bringing along a guidebook on a ride was very much a thing. Before long I was checking out places “not in the books” and friends would want me to lead rides or explain to them how they could get there. This lead to hand written directions and maps that got photo copied and passed around. Then came scans and me putting hosting on my cox.net personal account. Somewhere along the line I picked up the nickname Mountain Bike Bill. On Feburary 6th, 2002, MountainBikeBill.com became a thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cocktail Rock on the San Juan Trail,<\/a> October 2001. SJT was part of the original batch of reviews on the site. This one was ported over from the cox.net site. <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

If you want a historical chuckle you can check out these historical nuggest of the site that I’m probably going to leave as is and make a whole next page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n