{"id":299,"date":"2026-10-13T11:23:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T11:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/backcountrymountain.life\/?page_id=299"},"modified":"2026-10-13T21:13:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T21:13:19","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/backcountrymountain.life\/?page_id=299","title":{"rendered":"What are we thinking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The Story<\/h1>\n<p>Rich and Sam Oldham bought a cabin and the 400 acres around it roughly six years ago. They didn\u2019t wait for someone else to build the playground. They started cutting lines, building trails, and shaping the mountain themselves.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/backcountrymountain.life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Quit-The-Rat-Race-m4v-image.jpg\" alt=\"Quit the rat race\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It started with the simple idea that if you want a private mountain, you have to go out and make one. No lifts. No groomed runs. No crowds. Just the work of turning raw land into terrain you actually want to ride.<\/p>\n<p>Moose Springs Ranch is private, fully off-grid, and unfinished on purpose. No membership tiers. No public access. Invite-only \u2014 if you\u2019re here, you already know the rules.<\/p>\n<p><video controls src=\"https:\/\/backcountrymountain.life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Cabin-Drone-Shot-Landscape-5.m4v\" style=\"max-width:100%;\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>The cabin sits as the base. From there the road climbs, the trails leave, and the season decides what gets built next. Dirt bikes when it\u2019s dry. Snowboards when the snow lands. Tracked UTVs to reach the places helicopters don\u2019t go. Cliff jumps and road gaps that only exist because someone went out and cut them.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/backcountrymountain.life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DSC01289-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Building trails\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every trail, every jump, every feature starts with what\u2019s already on the mountain. Downed trees become grind features. Natural terrain gets shaped just enough to ride.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/backcountrymountain.life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DSC01745-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Mountain terrain\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;\" \/><br \/>\n<video controls src=\"https:\/\/backcountrymountain.life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_0315.mov\" style=\"max-width:100%;\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no crowd waiting at the bottom. No lift line. No one else on the mountain unless they were invited.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/backcountrymountain.life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DSC02536-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Features from the land\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;\" \/><br \/>\n<video controls src=\"https:\/\/backcountrymountain.life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_5941.mov\" style=\"max-width:100%;\"><\/video><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/backcountrymountain.life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DSC03311-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"The mountain\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rich and Sam are still out here doing the work. Come see what we\u2019re building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Story Rich and Sam Oldham bought a cabin and the 400 acres around it roughly six years ago. They didn\u2019t wait for someone else to build the playground. They started cutting lines, building trails, and shaping the mountain themselves. It started with the simple idea that if you want a private mountain, you have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-299","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backcountrymountain.life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backcountrymountain.life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backcountrymountain.life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backcountrymountain.life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backcountrymountain.life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/backcountrymountain.life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/backcountrymountain.life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/299\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backcountrymountain.life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backcountrymountain.life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}