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Athlete Spotlight - Kait Boyle and Kurt Refsnider
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Industry Nine - Pivot Pro Backcountry Team
Wolf Tooth is proud to continue our sponsorship of Kait Boyle and Kurt Refsnider of The Industry Nine - Pivot Pro Backcountry Team. They share a diverse calendar of events, adventures, and projects spanning down-country xc stage racing, self-supported ultras, trail initiatives, long-distance trail traverses, and some snow and gravel races to round it all out. We’re excited for the opportunity to be working closely with this team of riders who advocate for trails, adventurous riding, stewardship, and excellence in their pursuits.
Kait Boyle
Kait LOVES moving in mountains, mostly on two wheels but also on skis and her two feet. She discovered the bike deep in a career in outdoor education and quickly fell in love with bikepacking which dominoed into pursuing long bikepacking expeditions around the world. That led to racing to see if she could, which turned into wondering what her best looked like. She won a 24-hr World Championship, set records in self-supported ultras that rival the strongest men and then survived and overcome a traumatic car accident which has ultimately led her to where she is now - a passionate and dedicated backcountry mountain biker and ultra endurance athlete who rides to go deeper, connect to place and people, and expand her limits.
Through this journey she co-founded Bikepacking Roots, a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to bikepacking, and found her voice and passion as an advocate for wild landscapes, trails, and climate. She serves on the board of Mountain Bike the Tetons to advocate for trails and strengthen the mtb community. As one of the first Protect Our Winter Bike Athlete Alliance members she strives to be an effective climate advocate.
Off the bike she loves time at home in the Tetons with her husband, Will and their dog Hank.
Kurt Refsnider
More than 20 years ago, 7th-grade Kurt entered his first mountain bike race at the Minnesota Zoo, and he's been hooked on dirt ever since. He's been enamored by probing mental and physical limits in multi-day ultra endurance events since the early days of bikepacking races, winning and setting records in some of the toughest mountain bike ultras in the United States – Tour Divide, the Arizona Trail 300 and 750, the Colorado Trail Race, the Iditarod Trail Invitational, and more. But experiencing new-to-him landscapes and developing a deeper understanding of those places is what really energizes and inspires him, whether that’s moving through those places at a rapid or relaxed pace. And rugged backcountry trails are where he loves riding the most. Beyond simply pedaling his bike, Kurt is a co-founder Bikepacking Roots, a cycling coach, a former geology professor, and an advocate for landscapes, backcountry trails, and climate.
Image: Ben Gavelda
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