Upcoming FVMBA trail days
Next scheduled trail days are:
Sumas - July 9th. More detail to come
Vedder: Dilemma. Date to be announced.
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FVMBA news archives
Archive for the category: 'Vedder Mountain'
Cooperation yields a mountain of garbage
Vedder Mountain Trails Association members representing Fraser Valley Mountain Bike Association, Back Country Horseman of BC, Vedder Running Club, Pacific Northwest Motorcycle Associatian, and Chilliwack Outdoor Club cooperated to make the April 9 cleanup day organized by FVMBA reps a complete success.
Individuals from these groups lent more than 700 man-hours of volunteer labour to the effort. This mammoth effort yeilded 2.7 metric tonnes of garbage that did not include metal, tires and other recyclables.
While it is discouraging that we need to continue to bust our humps keeping our playground pristine, the amount of enthusiam applied to this problem was overwhelming. Thank yous must be extended to our local Ministry of Tourism, Sport and Arts recreation representative Brian Radke who generously supplied funding for the dumpsters and landfill fees for a second year. Harvey Adrian from MacDonald's supplied coupons, and Jack's Cycles supplied food, barbequing skills and some swag. There were many, many others that helped in significant ways. You know who you are and your efforts are appreciated.
VMTA past-president Mark Steinebach enjoys the now clean & tidy trails of Vedder Mountain
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Upcoming FVMBA trail days
The FVMBA has two cleanup days scheduled in the coming months:
- Vedder Mtn. Cleanup. 9 April 2006 (Sunday). Meet at Jack's Cycle in Chilliwack, 9:30am.
- Sumas Mtn. Cleanup. 28 May 2006 (Sunday). Meet at the locked gate on Batt Road, 9:30am.
Drop us a line if you have any questions or need to arrange a ride to either of the locations.
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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)
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Vedder Mountain rally video
We were just sent a link to some video footage of the recent rally up at Vedder Mountain. There's a great interview with Mark Steinbach that illustrates a lot of the reasons why Vedder should remain open to the public.
Thanks to Geoff Edwards at Look-Ear.com for the heads up.
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Cutting solution?
Monday the 21st of february is a big day for the associated users of Vedder Mountain. A meeting has been set up @ 1pm at the forestry office in Chilliwack with logging officials, and Coalition reps. of Vedder Mountain. Unlike the hockey season that never happend, both sides are prepared to help each other out to find a way to end this issue with practical and functional solutions. More to come after monday………keep your levers crossed!
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Trails and Trees - Challenge logging activity on Vedder Mountain
This is a message to all users of Vedder Mountain. On sat/19/feb @ 3pm, there will be a meeting of all user groups with B.C.T.V. It is important that we have as many people show up to this event as possible. The trails we all love to ride are in danger of being logged as well road closure during these times of the logging project. If you can make it, please bring your bikes and as many people as possible to represent the community and those who could not make this important meeting. There is a chance to make Vedder Mountain a recreational area only and this will be one of the biggest steps in that direction. FVMBA thanks anyone willing to participate and hopes to see many familiar faces as possible!!
NOTE: IF you could park @ the Cultus Lake parking lot at the bottom of Endo and ride your bikes to the base of the mountain that would be great!
Wanna write a letter? Let someone know you thoughts on the issue.
Please take the time and email:
ph. 604-952-3751
fx. 604-952-3769
Ron must respond to each individual email sent to him by the public demanding answers and proposed solutions to this situation. Make this guy earn his fat cheque by overwhelming numbers of emails, faxes and phone calls. This is our way of speaking out and showing representation of a wide user group who cares.
Thanks for the support!
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