In Pictures: Dave Trumpore 2014-2016

 Make your desktop image great again!

 I had the Sam Hill a my laptop for a while but then I started chickening out on stuff for fear of crashing. Literally such a good photo it struck fear into me off the screen.

 Dave has made my life great again with his pictures !! Stoked

 @siderealwall2: I got it in my "wallpaper playlist" too. The colors are tits !

 HE WON!!! I can't believe it!

P.S. Does anyone in Canada have a guest bedroom for me until this shit blows over?????

 @RedBurn: politics and rhetoric aside... If you truly value the environment and the future of the world you live in you should indeed be worried about Trump and his well documented belief that climate change is a hoax and not based on science. That he is now leader of the world's largest consumer of fossil fuels and energy, and the one many developing nations will look to as an example... That alone should have everyone a touch worried.

 @employee7: I live in Burlington VT by choice, and part of that choice is that it is the first major city in the USA to generate 100% of it's power from renewable sources. I do not commute to work in a car daily, and when I do drive it's in a fuel efficient car. I ride my bike daily, I walk to the grocery store, I buy almost all of my food from local sources (another reason to live in Vermont). I vote for politicians who make climate and environment their top priority.... Yes I do fly quite often in a plane, and did spend 90 minutes a helicopter last year, but lets face it we all inevitably have some excess carbon footprint we can not control for various reasons, but can still consciously do our best to control what we can control. So yes, I am being the change I want to see in the world, while documenting a a sport and lifestyle that promotes health and respect of the world we live in.

 @employee7: I see you obviously have an ulterior motive here or are trying to prove something... If you'd like to chat offline rather than hijacking this thread I love to.

That said, yes burning wood has carbon emissions, though if done correctly still cleaner then many other options. Wood is indeed renewable as in we can grow more. Not so much with oil, coal, gas etc. Is it perfect no, is it better when combined with wind solar and hydro electric then the standard model across much of the country? Perhaps yes. The idea that it is carbon neutral is a bit of a stretch though. Saying that cutting down a tree best replaced by another tree that grows and absorbs the carbon certainly isn't wholly accurate, but again still better than many of the other options so heavily relied on elsewhwre.

I'll take living in a community that is striving to make changes and lists environmental impact as one of it's top priorities.

A little blurb about the Mcneil Plant you so hastily researched... "McNeil is equipped with a series of air quality control devices that limit the particulate stack emissions to one-tenth the level allowed by Vermont state regulation. McNeil's emissions are one one-hundredth of the allowable federal level. The only visible emission from the plant is water vapor during the cooler months of the year. In 2008, McNeil voluntarily installed a $12 million Regenerative Selective Catalytic Reduction system, which reduced the Nitrogen Oxide emissions to 1/3 of the state requirement" It goes on to say the ash is used as a soil amendment/source of fertilizer.

Even a little pro/con reading (though a bit outdated)
www.buildinggreen.com/blog/biomass-vs-biomass-–-round-1-–-scrutinizing-biomass-electricity-generation

again... nothing is perfect. But I feel like aside from staying home and never driving or flying anywhere, while running a biodynamic farm powered by solar and wind there is no way you are not going to try to find some way to argue with my original statments.

Which in case you forgot was simply a reference to the newly elected President of the United States who is a well document climate change denier and has already said he plans to rip up the Paris Accord and drill away for oils all over the country. Somehow because I fly often you are trying to insinuate I am part of the problem or an equal accomplice????

Curious... While you are throwing stones at what I can assume is a glass house, what is it you do for a living that is being the change you want to see in the world?

 @employee7: shut up you nob

 @davetrumpore: I think you may well have won this debate sir

 @davetrumpore: First off you are correct this is not the forum for this discussion. Secondly I love your pictures and wish I had half your talent with a camera.

@freerideglory: thank you for participating in our intelligent discourse.

 @siderealwall2: I've had that same looking crash a couple of times, one in a rock garden that looks like that at Killington. all those rocks hurt. Sam's was 4 times faster, it was ugly. I really think that one slowed him down for good..

 Are you F@#$% kidding me with these pictures? They really grabbed my rods and cones; unsolicited. Amazing.

 @siderealwall2: Ha, I wonder if that is why he decided to go full enduro. He was so fun to watch back when he was killing it. But everyone's time passes. I'll never forget that race where is started pouring and turned the track into a mudslide. He crashed and just missed winning over Matty L. who ran the course dry.

 Well Sam can do whatever he want's and still get the admiration from me. I don't care if he starts racing E-Bike 29+ Hardtails, he is a god on and off the bike. Rock garden crashes are particularly nasty, and pretty much the only terrain that I really still have to master are the choppy rocky tech trails. I totally understand Sam's decision, enduro courses tend to be more mellow and flow better on the smaller bikes, meanwhile I wouldn't consider doing my usual speed down even the tamest UCI track on a full-fledged downhill bike. (Although this might have to change, with how much money I just dropped on my new resort-racer dual crown'd bike)

 @siderealwall2: speed is your friend on a knarly course, as long as you can see the line. it's rougher going slow most of the time. Saw Sam in the US Open, he was the only rider that went by with no fingers on the breaks...balls out!

 @mbiker35: That's how he came through the rock section here... With out the same success.

 Have you guys seen the documentary Cowspiracy? I would like to know what all the politicians and artists who are in favor of environmental initiatives would have to say about that.

And why should one person be trying to do their best saving the environment, while others will be having all the polluting/environmental damaging fun? Seems you would only be prolonging their good times at the expense of your own. Everyone should be on the same page.

 @davetrumpore: WE WILL ALL DIE!!!

 Awesome dude, love it.

 Glad to hear. The hanging lake is part of the Fiordlands National Park in New Zealand.

 Lake Quill, New Zealand

 Lake Erskine, New Zealand *