Trail day on Red Mountain!
We’re going to clean out the trails for the XC portion of the upcoming Bear Mountain Challenge in July.
Red Mountain is directly across the street from the Bear Mountain DH course, so those familiar with Bear will know where to park:
Meet at Mill Pond parking lot, 10:00am May 13th.
Sponsored by Wentings Cycle in Mission.
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Another successful trail day!!
Thanks to:
A perfect turnout for a perfect day - even the weather worked out for us.
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Our first Official Trail day on Ledgeview in a very long time. come help us re-route part of S.O.B. into the parkland.
Bike Brewery is providing Lunch and some excellent swag for volunteers. Wentings ‘Bike Bux’ will also be given out, so come on out, do a bit of work and have fun.
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Well, the weather gods helped us out with clear skies. We had a great turnout, at least 30 people…some of whom even stayed after lunch and worked until 5. Skidder received some buffing, with the takeoffs of some jumps cribbed in and re-dirted. The new jump we built last time on Hidden pleasures also received some buffing. Further down the trail, we continued with Gerald’s re-route. Things are looking good! (although the dirt does need some time to settle in, so please don’t everybody go and run up there to ride it).
Thanks very much to everyone who came out to help! If you were there, please send me your email address.
Thanks to Jack's Cycle in Chilliwack for providing lunch for our hungry volunteers! Thanks to Wentings' Cycle in Mission for “trail bucks”!
Next big trail day is April 21 on McKee peak (Ledgeview) in Abbotsford, sponsored by Abbotsford's newest bike shop, The Bike Brewery! See you all there!
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On Sunday March 25, we’ll be having our first “official” trail maintenance day of 2007. The fine folks at Jack’s Cycle will be providing all the volunteers with free pizza lunch in exchange for all their hard work. We will be continuing the fine work started on Hidden Pleasures.
We’ll be meeting at Jack’s Cycle, located at 45735 Thomas Rd, Vedder Crossing in Chilliwack (beside McDonalds) at 9:30 and then heading over to Vedder shortly thereafter. Don’t worry if your vehicle is not capable of the drive up Vedder, we’ve got lots of trucks and arranging a ride up is no problem!
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The heavy rains of this past weekend have taken their toll on the trails in the Clayburn area of Abbotsford. “Soft Taco”, which had been undergoing a facelift, has had a large section of the trail washed out by a mudslide. There is a large chasm running across the trail, and is not safe, even on foot. For safety reasons, the trail is closed until further notice.
On “Lost Oakleys”, the ladder bridge which crosses Clayburn Creek just before the exit has washed out again. We are heading in there this Saturday, March 17 to put it back in place, and do a bit of maintenance on the trail. All who are interested are welcome to lend a hand. We’ll be meeting at the exit of Lost Oakleys at around 10 am.
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A small but dedicated crew continues to work on upgrading Soft Taco in Clayburn. They’ll be working there this upcoming Saturday, March 3 at 10 am. Anyone who would like to come help out is welcome.
Need directions? E-mail us and we’ll get you sorted.
We will have Wentings’ Trail Bucks to give out to volunteers as well!
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This past weekend saw a lot of love put back into the trails at Vedder Mountain in Chilliwack. We had a great turnout of volunteers, 6 on Saturday and 14 on Sunday! Some great work was done on “Hidden Pleasures” to re-route the beginning section of the trail. It is now a lot more fun, and more importantly, much more sustainable. Much was done in the way of drainage and grade reversals to keep water from running down the trail, and we’re quite happy with the result. Work is ongoing further down the trail, if you’re interested in helping send us an email at ride@fvmba.com. Thanks to everyone who came out!
Just a few of the volunteers
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Dates for Trail Days for 2007 have been decided:
Come on out and give a little back to the trails we all ride. We’ve got ‘Trail bucks’ - redeemable at Wentings toward the purchase of whatever cool bike stuff you want.
As we get closer to each date, more details will be announced, both here, NSMB and Pinkbike.
In addition to these ‘formal’ trail dates, there are dedicated groups of builders working on trails on almost any given weekend, and some weekdays. If you want to help - and learn - drop us a line and we’ll hook you up.
Don’t forget the current project of re-working Soft Taco in Clayburn. If you’ve ridden this trail before, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised come spring!!
THanks to all the Bike shops helping out so far:
Wentings in Mission for providing Trail bucks for trail day volunteers. Jacks cycles in Chilliwack for providing a staging area for the Vedder date.
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January 16th - this saturday.
The last big rain did some damage (again) to the last bridge onLostOakleys. We’re going to repair it this Saturday 10:00am. We could really use a few extra helping hands.
Meet at the LostOakleys Exit 10:00am (MTB time)
Thanks.
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