hailey moore

based in boulder, co

Riding Mt. Blue Sky

There was fire in the air on the last day of July. The morning felt thick with haze from the three  Front Range blazes as I rolled my bike outside. Colorado has been lucky the last few years, but there’s always the chance that fire season will mar my otherwise favorite time to live here. At least the air doesn’t smell like smoke yet, I thought as I swung a leg over and pushed off. The day would be long and the air thin enough where I was headed: from my home in Boulder all the way up to the 14,0...
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Simple Cycling Maps Shop Visit

Simple Cycling Maps is a Boulder-based design duo that bring an impressive level of data, clarity, and art to their printed maps. In an age of high-resolution head units and mindless turn-by-turn queues, Simple Cycling Maps hope their maps can bring something different to the table. Read on for Hailey Moore‘s Simple Cycling Maps Shop Visit and chat with the founders. Nearly one hundred years ago, the English electrical draftsman Harry Beck designed a new Tube map for the London Underground syst...
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Slipstream AI: A New Route-Planning Tool for Gravel Cyclists

Gravel is an imprecise term and ideal tire-size debates on the internet for a given route can go deep in the comments section. Slipstream AI is a new route-planning tool that hopes to bring a little more objectivity to how we rate gravel technicality for drop-bar riding. Read on to learn more about how this application is leveraging artificial intelligence to improve gravel cyclists’ experiences. Raise your hand if you’ve ever gotten caught unintentionally underbiking on a new-to-you route. Rai...
Field Mag •

How (and Why) We Hiked Colorado's Highest Peak This Winter

Mount Elbert East Ridge Quick Stats Distance: 13.5 miles Elevation Gain: 5,000 ft Direction: East to West Average Time to Summit: 8 hours Season: Primarily hiked in warmer weather, but as long as you’re prepared, it is sublime in winter. “Be loyal to the winter, all the way through—all the way, and with sincerity—or you’ll find yourself high and dry, longing for a spring that’s a long way off, and winter will have abandoned you.” - author and environmental activist Rick Bass Since first re...
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Ultra Rebuilding Effort: The Old Fort Strong Endurance Festival

“Ten weeks ago, was the storm. Nine weeks ago, we started planning.” These words were spoken by one of the organizers of the Old Fort Strong Endurance Festival (OFSEF) in early December and capture the ethos of the ultra-style event that sprang up in western North Carolina in the wake of Hurricane Helene. A colonialist stronghold during the Revolutionary War and later a trading outpost, the town of Old Fort was once seen as a “gateway to the West” in the foothills of North Carolina’s Appalachian...
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What I Learned From My First Mountain Bike Race

Throughout 2024, Hailey Moore (in her own words) has been inching her way along the mountain biking learning curve. She recently rode the Old Fort Strong Endurance Festival and writes about what she learned from her first mountain bike race. In 2024, I decided to try to get better at mountain biking. As I’ve written previously, the idea started as a means to an end: I wanted to feel more confident riding technical terrain, at least insofar as the technical demands of the more backcountry single...
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Hailey’s Favorite Products, Rides, and More From 2024

To close out our editorial team’s favorites lists, Hailey Moore weighs in with her top products from the year, with a couple women’s-specific picks, and shares the rides, reads, tunes, and more that shaped her 2024. At the beginning of 2024, I wrote an Instagram post that outlined the new year’s goals that I was comfortable sharing with the internet world: “Read more books, ride my mountain bike, more calls with friends (instead of texts), get better at fixing things, cook good food (and stop...
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Cassiopeia Shop Visit: Boulder’s Female-Forward Cycling Cafe

You’ll find mostly women’s apparel hanging on the racks at Boulder’s newest cycling shop, Cassiopeia. Opened in late September, the “female-forward” store features boutique brands like Ostroy, Jelenew, and Fingerscrossed, and doubles as a cycling café and Velospa. Hailey Moore takes a shop visit to Cassiopeia to chat with owner Diana Freeman about the store’s unique business concept, find out what exactly is a Velospa, the membership model, and more! Tucked among high façades, across from elect...
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Otso Warakin Steel Review: A Gravel Bike That Cuts Through the Noise

The field of all-road and gravel bikes may seem crowded, but Otso Cycles always seems to add something new to the conversation with their bikes. In this review, Hailey Moore writes about what sets the Otso Warakin Steel apart among its off-road peers. If you’re a fan of Otso Cycles, Wolf Tooth Components’ Minnesota-based sister bike brand, then you know that all Otso bikes are just a little different. And – in defiance of my southern roots that would have me use “different” as polite euphemism –...
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Red Bull Rampage 2024: The Women Have (Finally) Arrived

Today we’re detouring into the gravity space in the lead-up to the 2024 Red Bull Rampage, the first edition of the event that will feature a women’s category. Hailey Moore shares a brief history of high-profile freeride mountain bike event and how a few of the women involved are thinking about this long-awaited milestone. Later this week, Red Bull will host its iconic freeride mountain bike event, the 2024 Red Bull Rampage, in the desert surrounding Virgin, Utah. Since its 2001 inception, the co...
Passenger •

Travel by Bike: Tips For Bikepacking and Cycle Touring

Bikepacking is and does what it says on the tin. Backpacking on two-wheels, with bags strapped to your bike rather than your… back. A multi-day cycle trip carrying minimal gear and sleeping rough along the route in pursuit of good times found from the saddle. Passenger Ambassador, Hailey Moore is here to give the lowdown on route setting, equipment gathering and space-saving packing tips. She’s worn down tred the world over and has (saddle) bags of experience and a good few stories from the road...
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Rodeo Adventure Labs Shop Visit: Ride. Explore. Create. Better.

Rodeo Adventure Labs was founded as an open-to-anyone team a decade ago by Stephen Fitzgerald and a group of friends in search of less rules and more fun on bikes. Since becoming a production bike company with an emphasis on versatility, customization, and—always—refined design, Rodeo has retained a culture of questioning the norm. Today, Hailey Moore shares a long-form profile of the high points and headwinds Rodeo has navigated over the past ten years, and exciting insights into how the compan...
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Hailey’s 2024 Summer Product Picks

For Hailey Moore, summer in Colorado is a full-steam-ahead season, a fleeting trio of months when the alpine is most accessible. Read on for Hailey’s 2024 Summer Product Picks and a closer look at the gear that keeps her going this time of year. Growing up in North Carolina, I am an appreciator of all four seasons, but summer in Colorado has transformed my understanding of that particular slice of the celestial cycle. Don’t get me wrong, it can still be plenty hot, but climbing to higher elevati...
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Summer Reading List: Outdoor and Adventure Books for the Dog Days

Whether you are lounging waterside or holed up in a tent waiting out a summer storm, a good book is always a welcome companion. Hailey Moore puts her own spin on a summer reading list with nine book recommendations that span the outdoor and adventure genre. Don’t see your favorite? Drop into the comments and share! I recently heard a couple of podcasters lamenting that the “Song of the Summer” concept is dead. One theory they gave is that streaming services have contributed to the fracturing of...
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Grayl GeoPress Ti Purifier Review: Water Filtering ≠ Purifying

Water filtration does not equal water purification: there are different levels to the process of creating safe, clean drinking water. In a review of Grayl’s GeoPress titanium travel purifier, Hailey Moore explains what gets missed by filters alone and why you might consider carrying a purifying system. For summer adventures in Colorado, I always carry a water filter. Numerous pocketable options exist today that stow easily for backcountry riding or alpine running and being able to refill mid-out...
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Ibis Cycles Ripley Review: A First-Timer’s Crash Course in Riding Full Suspension

Before getting to test ride an Ibis Cycles Ripley, Hailey Moore was pretty sure she’d never own a full-suspension bike. Now her feelings are, well, a little squishier. Read on for Hailey’s reflections on how riding a full-suspension mountain bike for the first time challenged her identity as a cyclist and furthered her mountain biking progression. I’ve always chafed a little at the mainstream assumption that the sport of rock climbing is about chasing some brain-chemical rush. Terms like “adren
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Temple Cycles Road 2 Review: The Future Vintage Steel

After an extended hiatus from riding a dedicated road bike, Hailey Moore dips back into the category with a review of UK-based Temple Cycles Road 2. Read on for Hailey’s thoughts on this neo-classic with future vintage ambitions… Despite the current gravel heyday, I have a confession: I love road riding. On the one hand, a breezy cruise on quiet back roads can have all of the sensory leisure of an afternoon picnic. On the other, there’s nothing quite like going full gas on a paved climb, grimac
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The Dust-Up: Enduring Growth and Why I (Still) Want To Race Unbound Gravel

Going into this year’s Unbound Gravel, someone asked Hailey Moore why she was lining up. Turns out, after a bit of thought, the answer was more complicated than she’d expected. Read on as Hailey writes about gravel’s bittersweet growing pains and her motivation for toeing the line for the fourth time in Emporia. I recently finished reading environmentalist writer Bill McKibben’s lane-changing self-reflective chronicle, Long Distance: Testing the Limits of Body and Spirit in a Year of Living Str
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Gas Station Fueling Tips: When Cycling Nutrition Goes Rogue

Even if you’ve never given the phrase “carbs per hour” a second thought (or a first), Hailey Moore would bet that all cyclists have a shared performance goal: we want to feel good while riding. And while performance-focused sports nutrition brands like Skratch Labs have largely catered to the carb-counting crowds, the science of nutrition underpinning their products can still be applied outside of the controlled confines of racing—to bikepacking, randonneuring and other unsupported adventure rid
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