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A dirt field of dreams
8/13/2025 | 1m 27sVideo has Closed Captions
Ruby Hill Bike Park is built on community and volunteerism.
Volunteers build dirt jumps, berms and community during Dig and Ride nights at Denver's Ruby Hill Bike Park.
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A dirt field of dreams
8/13/2025 | 1m 27sVideo has Closed Captions
Volunteers build dirt jumps, berms and community during Dig and Ride nights at Denver's Ruby Hill Bike Park.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipI think the really cool thing about parks like Ruby Hill and Barnum and the rest of the dirt jump parks in the Front Range is that it's like really living, breathing art.
Every day you have to go in and work on it and have somebody testing it, understanding how it's riding.
I came out here one night alone after school.
That’s where I found Derek and about 15 other volunteers working on the jumps.
And he just shoved a shovel in my hands, and the rest is history.
We provide tools for volunteers to come out, teach them how to maintain the jumps.
Some of them have more skills and can work on building new jumps.
You want to come in.
We’re going to get it nice and smooth.
And teach the riders who don't have as much skill, try and bring their skills up.
Move it around, move it around.
O.K., that’s good.
Let off for a second.
I think it's really important to have that hands-on community feeling where everybody's involved.
Nice, dude.
Those same people who are building the jumps and know how they ride are the same people who are going to be teaching the young ones, the next generation, how to get those jumps going.
What's better to work with your friends on something that you get to ride and then ride with your friends on what you worked on?
At the end of all the hard work, I get to ride the new jumps with my dudes.
Yeah Huxley!
Above all, it's just getting out here with all these people who are after the same thing and just sharing that love of jumping through the air with each other.
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