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Arkansas Eclipse trip '24

I did a bike trip to Arkansas! I keep explaining this to people so I might as well tell it here. Bentonville, AR is the hometown of Walmart. They have their corporate office there and a Walmart museum and tons of Walmart stuff. Ironically it’s a small town where Walmart is supporting all the locally owned independent shops…weird. But, the story goes, some of the Walton heirs are into mountain biking and they asked Gramps for some land and money to build trails. So, hooboy! Did they ever! The internet is full of videos describing what’s out there. The Disney Land of Mountain biking is a pretty good claim. We rode paved pumptracks through the woods, a metal sculpted trail and a trail made entirely of big flat rocks fanned out like a deck of cards. All crazy stuff you would never do anywhere else. They also had some fun jump and flow trails that felt like a snack-size version of trails in Whistler.  My traveling companions were two Crested Butte locals I dragged away from spring ski...