Recreational User Groups “Clean House” on Vedder Mountain
This message was received from Mark Steinebach. Keep up the good work out there!
Sunday, March 20 saw several different groups of recreational users come together to put their collective back’s into cleaning up Vedder Mountain. Every year the dirt bike, trail running, hiking, horseback riding and mountain biking groups have organized their own “trail days” to deal with the illegal dumping abuses that are reeked upon this area that we love so much. This year the various groups co-ordinated their focus. The result was a cumulative effort that yielded some 500 man hours of volunteer labour of which the mountain bike community contributed nearly half.
Two mega-dumpsters of garbage were removed from the roadways and embankments of Vedder Mountain, and piles of berms were added to the trails to improve that flowy feeling. A ton of general trail maintenance occurred. Following this trail ‘love-in’ the troops met back at Jack’s Cycle for eats. Swag flowed to the regiment and then it was off to enjoy mass trail riding. We went home muddy, tired and smiling.
The day was all good and props have to go out to the following good folks that helped to make this day go off by the donation of goods, food, money or effort:
- Kona
- Norco Performance Bikes
- Jack’s Cycle
- Ryders Eyewear
- Save-on-Foods (Sardis)
- McDonald’s (Sardis)
- Dairy Queen
- FVMBA
- NSMB
- Pinkbike
- Alpine Valley Disposal Ltd
- City of Chilliwack
- Ministry of Forests (Chilliwack District)
- Kelmor Gravel Sales (Bill Kelly)
