Bike Festival Clinics
MEET OUR INSTRUCTORS
Kait Boyle
Bikepacking, Backcountry Riding, Advocacy
Kait Boyle is a professional mountain biker, 24-hr world champion and record holder in self-supported ultra-distance racing. She rides for the Industry Nine – Pivot Pro Backcountry Team and dedicates most of her time on the bike to riding trails in remote, wild landscapes. She is a co-founder and Education Director of Bikepacking Roots, the national 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to advocating for bikepacking, bikepackers and the landscapes through which they ride. Kait is a member of the Protect Our Winters Athlete Alliance and serves on the board of Mountain Bike the Tetons and the Arizona Trail Association – all with the intention of advocating for healthy landscapes and a connected and inspired mountain bike community. She lives in Victor, Idaho with her partner and trail pup, Hank.
Stacy Wells
Bike Handling, Fundamentals, Bike Park Skills
Lindsay Nohl
Bikepacking, Fundamentals, Advocacy
Lindsay is the executive director for the local non-profit Mountain Bike the Tetons. She’s a current PMBIA level 1 mountain bike coach and is taking her level 2 certification course in spring 2022. She coaches part-time for Ladies AllRide mountain bike skills camps and works as a certified life coach for her own business Lindsay Nohl Coaching. Her passion for mountain biking took off in 2013 while living in Tucson, Arizona. She loves the physical nature of mountain biking and how the sport is a combination of endurance, strength, technique, and flat-out grit. Lindsay believes that mountain biking is beneficial for both physical and mental health and that it’s a direct avenue to overcome fears and build both community and confidence. Her favorite outdoor adventures are long bikepacking trips and races in the desert southwest.
Darran Wells
Bike Handling, Bike Park Skills
Darran is the Professor of Outdoor Education for Central Wyoming College in Lander, WY. He has been working professionally in outdoor education since 1999 and teaching mountain bike skills courses and clinics since 2009. After years as a competitive adventure racer, Darran switched to riding DH trails and resorts in 2011. He has been a BICP Level 2 Instructor since 2014. Darran and his wife, Stacy, manage the college’s Alpine Science Institute which features 5 miles of mountain bike optimized trails where, they teach bike clinics, courses, and summer camps for all ages and abilities. Darran also teaches MTB trail construction. In October, he worked on the H5 build crew for 2021 Redbull Rampage.
Joe Stone
Adaptive MTB Skills, Advocacy
Julie Ellison
Adventure Photography
Through authentic writing, photography, and video, Julie’s storytelling approach doesn’t involve any extra lights, posing, or sugar-coating reality for Instagram. Instead, she likes to be a fly on the wall with her camera and a notebook, capturing candid moments of real people doing exactly what they would be doing if she weren’t there. Her favorite subjects are the outdoors, bold women, travel, the American West, and anything that’s awesome. She writes magazine features, creates documentary photo essays, produces and shoots films, and constantly rethinks how stories are told. Whether it’s for a big brand or a small personal project, her goal is to create engaging content that informs, entertains, and inspires. She was a Sony Alpha Female, she was the first female Editor in Chief of Climbing magazine, and she was once named one of the most talented people in the outdoor industry. She and her pit bull Lizzie lived in a van for several years before settling in southeast Idaho at the base of the Tetons, meeting her partner, and getting a second dog named Alfie. She thrives when she’s chasing a buck hunter 10 miles in the backcountry, interviewing captivating subjects, empowering others to tell their stories, shooting climbers on a big wall 1,500 feet off the ground, or reveling in the chaos of a messy artist’s workshop. Visit her website HERE.