For Immediate Release
March 5, 2008
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Adventure Cycling Welcomes New Board Members Andy Baur and Jennifer Garst

Dan Hungate Returns for Another Term as Board President

Missoula, Mont. — Adventure Cycling Association — North America’s largest bicycling membership organization — welcomes two new board members, Andy Baur of Helena, MT, and Jennifer Garst of Ames, IA, and celebrates the return of Dan Hungate (Seattle, WA), as Board President.

“Andy Baur and Jennifer Garst are fantastic additions to Adventure Cycling’s Board of Directors. Their professional skill sets and enthusiasm for bicycle travel fit perfectly with our organizational goals and mission,” says Jim Sayer, Executive Director of Adventure Cycling. He adds, “Dan Hungate has provided invaluable and focused leadership for the past several years; we’re thrilled that he has been re-elected to serve another term as Board President.”

Andy Baur found Adventure Cycling in 1993 while planning a bike trip through central Europe. “I am really excited to serve the organization that essentially changed my life with hopes that others will find the same inspiration from bicycle travel that I did.” Working in bicycle and pedestrian facility planning provided the foundation for his current job as executive director of Prickly Pear Land Trust in Helena, Montana. Andy has learned the value of building partnerships and community support to address the challenges that face Western towns. His job also includes assisting local government to maintain and develop Helena’s superb 60-mile system of hiking and biking trails. Andy and his wife Betsy have toured in Europe and South America, “but our most memorable was right out our back door through central Montana.” Now, with a three-year-old daughter, they are getting quite familiar with rail-trails in the area. The Baur family is a life member of Adventure Cycling.

Jennifer Garst has been an Adventure Cycling fan since the early 1990s when she wandered the U.S. for over a year on a solo bicycle tour and shortly thereafter participated in Adventure Cycling’s North Star trip from Missoula, MT to Alaska. More recently, Jennifer relied on Adventure Cycling maps when she moved via bicycle from Washington, DC, to her home state of Iowa. “Adventure Cycling is wonderful. It has always provided me with the resources I need to feel safe as I travel by bicycle.” Jennifer, formerly an assistant professor of communications, is the Gift Planning Manager at Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa. She serves on several non-profit and for-profit boards. “I am sought after as a board member because I can raise money, read a financial sheet, and make sure that the organization remains mission-driven. These are skills that I hope to use as a board member of Adventure Cycling.”

Dan Hungate grew up in Pullman, Washington, graduated from Stanford University and Harvard Law School, and practiced law in Seattle, Washington, until his retirement in 2000. As a college student, he cycled through Europe and then became a serious long-distance cyclist in the early 1990s, starting with the Seattle to Portland ride (STP). This was soon followed by his introduction to Adventure Cycling when he participated in Cycle Montana. Many trips followed, and immediately upon retirement he rode across the U.S. from Seattle to Washington, DC, with the American Lung Association. The word in Adventure Cycling Association’s mission statement that maintains his interest at a high level is “inspires,” followed closely by the “fun.” Many other admirable traits are associated with traveling by bicycle, but staying focused on those two words is the best objective he sees for maintaining the role of Adventure Cycling Association as America’s greatest cycling organization.

Also currently serving on Adventure Cycling’s Board of Directors are Frank Moritz of Colorado as Vice President; Carol York of Oregon as Treasurer; Anna Ginn of New York as Secretary; as well as Jan Brunk (MT); Van Dye (MT); and Jeffrey Miller (ME).

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