Meet the new Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew

IMBA Trail News
Volume 12, Number 2
May 1999

In March, Joey Klein and Kathy Summers from Montezuma, Colorado, became the new Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew No. 2. In addition to extensive trail building and mai ntenance experience, both have impressive mountain biking travel and racing resumes.

Klein and Summers have ridden in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Japan, the Caribbean, Mexico, and Japan. Some of their most notable on-the-bike adventures have unfolded close to home in Colorado. Both are past winners of Montezuma's Revenge, the one-of-a-kind alpine epic mountain bike race that encompasses the summits of two 14,000-footers.

Klein designed the Keystone (Colorado) mountain bike trail system, working in conjunction with the U.S. Forest Service on an environmental impact study and trail mapping and signage. Summers took the overall title in the Monserrat Fat Tire Festival in '95 and won Montezuma's Revenge the same year.

As might be expected, both are avid skiers who have long been involved with the ski school and ski patrol at Arapahoe Basin ski area. Home for the past several years has been a custom retrofitted school bus, parked just off a Forest Service trailhead in the tiny mountain town of Montezuma.

Klein and Summers have been working East of the Mississippi in North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia. They'll spend much of June in Oklahoma and Texas, before returning to Colorado and the West as summer begins.