Rod, et al,

Ok, lets not get our feathers ruffled over hearsay. It is true that Bike magazine did approach the tourism bureau in regards to a story on bellingham. The tourism bureau is not at all against supporting that kind of coverage and questions over the reasons that they did not take an active role in supporting the bike magazine article should be addressed to the bureau and not theorized here. There are always multiple sides to every story of course, thus it would be best to get the facts before everyone gets disgruntled with the tourism bureau for not supporting Bike magazine.

We actually subscribe to Bike magazine, do tons of trail work on Galbraith, and ride tons around this county...we are a bike oriented family.  The tourism bureau obviously supports biking, and coverage of all whatcom county tourist activities. I have forwarded your email and concerns to my wife who is the marketing director and I'm sure she will be more than happy to communicate with you on the topic in order to alleviate your fears.

Your ever faithful trail steward,
Joshua

--- On Tue, 9/14/10, Eric Brown <ebxtreme@earthlink.net> wrote:

From: Eric Brown <ebxtreme@earthlink.net>
Subject: RE: [whimps_mtb_club] Whatcom County Tourism vid
To: whimps_mtb_club@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2010, 11:47 AM

 

Hey Rod,

 

I honestly don't know, but that doesn't sound right. 
My friend works for Whatcom Co. Tourism and was the person that helped put this
particular vid together.  

 

I doubt they'd tell Bike "no thanks" as her
husband is also a builder in town.  Bike's done a bunch of stuff on
Galbraith in the last couple of years though….as Vernon Felton (one of
their primary writers) lives in town.

 

EB

 

From:
whimps_mtb_club@yahoogroups.com [mailto:whimps_mtb_club@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Rodd Pemble

Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 10:29 AM

To: 'whimps_mtb_club@yahoogroups.com'

Subject: RE: [whimps_mtb_club] Whatcom County Tourism vid

 

 

I heard through the grapevine that Bike
Magazine wanted to do a big spread on Galbraith in an upcoming issue, and the
local Whatcom County Tourism board said, "Ahhh, no thanks." 

 

Anybody confirm that before I talk to
them?  If it's true, are they nuts?  Maybe they think
we're all just a bunch of punks with no money or talents to bring to the
community – if so, we have some serious educating to do.

 

Rodd Pemble

SSC, Inc.

 

From:
whimps_mtb_club@yahoogroups.com [mailto:whimps_mtb_club@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Eric Brown

Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 9:51 AM

To: whimps_mtb_club@yahoogroups.com

Subject: [whimps_mtb_club] Whatcom County Tourism vid

 

 


A
few friends went out to film this a little while ago.  And, no, this
isn't a Transition ad…..lol.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhDMQOl713I&feature=player_embedded

 

EB