In view of the call for papers that attempt to decolonize researcher experiences, subjectivities, histories and complicities, this methodological reflection considers the role of the researcher within a project based in, and with, a First Nations community in Western Canada. This critically reflexive examination of the researcher situated within a research project concerned with mountain biking, trail building, and community development negotiates involvement and detachment, whiteness, criticality, and settler-colonial logics in and of community research. By reflecting on specific moments from the field, the presentation considers the decisions and positions taken by the researcher, and provides a critical self-assessment of the reproduction and disruption of settler-colonial logics in the field, and of ethnocentrism in the project’s design, proposal, and delivery. Finally, the presentation considers the potential trajectories of decolonized methodologists in navigating the maintenance or resistance of structures of settler colonialism in qualitative research.