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High quality mountain bike skills training that empowers riders through intentional skills progression, increases confidence and fun on the bike, builds supportive and inclusive community, and is welcoming of all abilities, backgrounds, and goals.

06/04/2026

Whether your family is brand new to the trails or looking to level up their skills, we’ve got something for every rider:

🌲 Youth Camp: We are hosting 3 action packed weeks this summer; two flow camps and one gravity camp. Expect your rider to learn plenty, ride a ton, and have a blast!!!
🌟July 9-12 | Beech Mtn Bike Park (Ages 12-17)
🌟July 13-17 | DuPont State Forest (Ages 9-14)
🌟July 27-31 | DuPont State Forest (Ages 9-14)

🧭Guided Waterfall + Lake Tours: See why DuPont State Forest is known as the ‘Land of the Waterfalls.’ Plus, cool off or enjoy the view at one of the forest’s main 5 lakes.

⚡️Private & Group Lessons: We can work with the whole family or focus just on your younger ones. Let’s make this sport more fun + safe for everyone!

You only have a few summers with them living at home, make them filled with memories that will last a lifetime! If you need adventure this summer, we’ve got you covered.✨

📩Email us at [email protected], text us at 828.222.0890, or click the link in our bio to book your spot today! ⏳

05/05/2026

💌Company Update 💌

Owner and head coach, Josh Whitmore , has touched down in Finale Ligure, Italy with his fiance, Taryn Hart .realtor, for his elopement trip and they have already started hitting the countless of trails through the costal city. It’s going to be a dream of a trip for these two. 🫶

He will be out of office until June, but we can still get anything scheduled ahead.

While away, we still have our we still have a full crew of amazing coaches to help reach your goals.

⚡️Coach Whitney: L2
⚡️Coach Emily: L2 + Certified Fitness Trainer
⚡️Coach Tiffany: L2 + Certified Fitness Trainer
⚡️Coach Kristian: L4

If you don’t see availability that works for you, reach out through email or our number, we want to make it happen!

💙💙💙 Wish the happy couple congrats and happy shredding!

04/29/2026

Ready to conquer the infamous lines of Pisgah? ⚡️

Introducing our newest clinic series: Women’s Pisgah Prep Skills!

Whether you’re training for a big race like the Pisgah 111, Swank, or PMBAR, or you just want to clear those ~dream lines~ with total confidence, we’re hitting the local favorites in this limited series with Coach Emily Cox.

With 15 years of racing experience, Emily is sharing the secrets to natural drops, rock gardens, and race day strategy.

🚐 We’re taking the SHUTTLE up Avery Creek rd to save your legs for the tech!

➡️ May 9 | Avery Creek + Shuttle: Master the drops and rock gardens. True backcountry flow right here.

➡️ May 10 | Bennett Gap: Tackle one of Pisgah’s toughest trails. We’ll break down the gnarly features and all the epic downhill chutes so you can ride with skill, not just luck. 🤘

⏰ 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
📍 Pisgah National Forest
Join us for one day or grab the bundle discount for both days!

Let’s dial in your skills and get you ready to rip.
🔗 Link in bio to secure your spot!

04/27/2026

// Meet Our Team //

🌟Whitney Houck is a Certified Mountain Bike Instructor ( and .bike Level 2 “Advanced Coach - Air Instructor”) with over 7 years of experience coaching.

🇺🇸Whitney is a retired Coast Guard Veteran Commander who spent much of her career training soldiers and managing elite-level training centers. Teaching and mentoring others to be their best has always been at her core. 👈

She currently serves as the Board President for , a powerhouse nonprofit dedicated to making mountain biking more inclusive and welcoming. You’ll often find her leading their free monthly Intro to Biking/Foundation clinics!

Today, alongside her volunteering for Dirt Skrrts and coaching with us, she also teaches a mountain bike course at Brevard College!

Coach Whitney is the epitome of joy and encouragement. She loves working with riders of all levels and is ready to help you break down any challenge on the trail. 🫶

Catch her this weekend at the Dirt Skrrts Bike Bash, where she’ll be teaching clinics alongside our other amazing instructors—or book her for a private session!

We are so grateful to have her on our team. Give her some love in the comments! 🚲✨

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04/21/2026

// Meet Our Team //

Welcome our newest coach Emily Cox! ⚡️

Emily is a Level 2 Certified coach and brings with her nearly 10 years of mountain bike instruction and 15 years of racing all disciplines of bikes at a high national level. Plus, she is a certified personal fitness trainer. Big goals or small, she’s got you.🔥

She loves big days on the bike and helping riders conquer new features. Catch her at the Pisgah 111, Pisgah All Mountain Challenge, National Enduro Champs in ID, WV Enduro Series, and all the underground races in between.

💙 Coach Emily is ready to support beginner to advanced riders and especially loves working with athletes who are race prepping or riders wanting to ride with more confidence and control.

She’s already hit the ground running leading our new Pisgah Prep clinic series, gearing up for summer camps, coaching plenty of private lessons, and more.

We are stoked to have her energy and passion on our team. 🌟

Drop a warm welcome in the comments below! 👇

04/17/2026

✨ Hello Appalachian Spring Ephemerals !!! ✨

Our coaches have been spotting wildflowers ALL over the trails for the last couple of weeks. It’s truly a magical time of year here to watch the forest come back to life.

📸 native plants featured:
Robin’s Plantain / Fleabane (Erigeron pulchellus)
Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)
Trout Lily (Erythronium americanum)
White Trillium (Trillium grandiflorum)
Mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum)

What native flora & fauna have you been keeping an eye out for as the earth wakes back up? 🫶

04/16/2026

Looking for your next intermediate trail in DuPont State Forest? ✨

Hickory Mountain Loop is a 3.6 mile trail offering a great mix of relatively accessible tech and smooth flow. It is a perfect trail to check off once you are feeling confident on Ridgeline and Ho**er Creek Trail.

Combine all three trails for an epic intermediate loop. 🔥

Hickory Mountain features short rock gardens, tight turns, short punchy climbs, and all the flow DuPont is famous for. 💎 If you want to session features, there are plenty of great spots to practice skills like roll downs, small drops, and technical uphills. Just be mindful of other riders, as DuPont can get busy!

The area burned within the last decade, so it is fascinating to see what flora pops up each spring.

🧭If you’d like to take the guesswork out of navigation, knowing when big features are coming up, & getting the tip on local knowledge: we’ve got you with guided rides here and beyond. We love lessons here too!
⚠️ Trail Alert: Keep an eye out for the hornets’ nest that frequently appears in late summer or early fall at the trailhead closest to the Pavilion. The forest does a good job with signage, so you should know, but nature isn’t always predictable :-)

04/08/2026

Who knows where this rock garden is?
Black Mountain Trail in PNF is peak backcountry tech + flow. 💎 Each section is fast and has its own style of riding.

🔹Middle Black meanders through rhododendron tunnels and a sloped, thickly wooded cliffside with perfectly placed rock gardens between buttery flow. It’s the perfect mix of red clay flow, pisgah roots, + technical precision.

🔹Lower Black is arguably the most-ridden trail in Pisgah for a reason. Because of this, it’s ridden in to be the perfect fast advanced/intermediate backcountry flow trail. It’s everything you’d want a playful Pisgah ride to be: tall natural berms, approachable drops, + impeccable rock gardens, all while ripping alongside a stream.
As for Pisgah, these sections of trail are some of the best entry points to the forest’s legendary terrain. Don’t be fooled though, they still require great line choices & good energy management for long downhills.

🎯Ready to break the trail down + ride it with more confidence? Or are you wanting to rail those corners with more speed?

➡️➡️➡️ If you are a lady shredder, we’ve got you dialed: THIS SUNDAY April 12th, Coach Emily Cox is covering the ins & outs of Lower + Middle Black for our 1st Women’s Pisgah Prep Session. 🎀

Snag your spot in our bio. 🔗

04/06/2026

🌷 Spring has SPRUNG 🌷

We’ve been busy hopping around the trails dialing in lines, jumps, and new skills. ✨

It’s about to get realllll good y’all out here. Let’s let the good times roll. 🤘

📆 We’ve got lots of FREE clinics and availability on the calendar, snag those spots before they fill up in our bio / story.

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Brevard, NC
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http://www.mtbskillsfactory.com/

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