Wild Rides and Wildflowers ― Philosophy and Botany With Bikes

Scott Abbott is the author of a book about Freemasonry and the German novel, and co-author of two books about travel and literature, Repetitions and Vampires and A Reasonable Dictionary. He was the jazz critic for the Salt Lake Observer and has translated several works by Austrian writer Peter Handke. He is Professor of Integrated Studies, Philosophy, and Humanities at Utah Valley University. His double-sprung Specialized Stumpjumper mountain bike, like he himself, is old, heavy, and mostly serviceable.

Sam Rushforth is Dean of the College of Science and Health at Utah Valley University. Under his watch, the university has grown to 33,000 students. He studies aquatic botany and wetland ecology and has published more than one hundred papers and books. He has mentored nearly forty graduate students, who are now working all over the world. He lives in Orem, Utah.