Hot on the heels of the release of the updated Axle Pack, Old Man Mountain (OMM) launches a new film. OMM employees Erich Weidenkeller and Zach Emerson recently spent a week out of sight, hiding in the Oregon woods. Why, you ask? Well, they were tracking Alex Schultz, a member of Old Man Mountain’s Experimental Bikepacking Team. They were tracking him down to film his winning run of the 2026 Oregon Timber Trail, and wanted to do it with minimal intrusion. The result is the new film Second Growth.
Paired with interviews with Alex and the race directors, as well as footage from Alex, they produced a film about conquering a trail that is battling a forest recovering from forest fire and wind storms.
Erich wrote a blog post that pairs nicely with the film. In it, he talks about their experience making the film. I didn’t know, and in case you didn’t as well, the Oregon Timber Trail is almost a 700-mile mountain bike trail that just about spans the state of Oregon.
I mean, it goes from the California border to the Columbia River, so yeah, pretty much the whole state.
Anywho, enough talkin’, let’s take a look at the film.
Old Man Mountain’s Second Growth
