Annual Spring Cleanup

Saturday was our annual spring cleanup day. A couple handfuls of people walked the trail with garbage bags and picked up any litter and refuse that was visible.

Thank you garbage pickers!

Adam found and captured Dora, who seems to have gotten lost on her latest adventure.

In the end the yield was pretty satisfying. I think Leaders Park should get a prize for biggest littered objects.

When the work was complete the group gathered back at the trailhead and enjoyed a stack of donated Dominos pizza.

The singletrack is in great shape. The reroute at the north end is amazing and the spur out to Homestead is nearly complete.

It's going to be a nice year of urban singletracking.

Fixing a Feature

Volunteering Is Giving

Trail Maintenance Thursdays: Go!

Trail maintenance Thursdays continue for 2014. 6pm every Thursday. Tomorrow is not an exception. Come help out tomorrow. We need you.

Winter War Mups

Baby, it's cold outside...how in the world are we going to make it to spring when it's this cold now?

Here's how...

-- FIRST --

January 28 we're going to gather downstairs at Acoustic and watch SingleTrack High. It's a film about kids who ride. There will be beverages and food. It will be a fundraiser for FAST too because we always need a money to pay our annual insurance premiums.

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December 14 - ONE WEEK from this posting  - we're supporting The Riddlebox Fat Bike Endurance Race. Complete details and registration is here - riddlebox.eventzilla.net. Our in house chef - Adam rocks in the kitchen - seriously rocks - is makin' egg bakes for the 8am breakfast.

Also, and this cannot be overstated, Adam rocks in the kitchen.

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We're looking ahead toward spring and adding singletrack. We want to complete the northend trail in Leaders Park to Homestead. We want to add and expand a section on the easy loop. Finally - and no promises here - we've done our part - other parties need to do their parts - we walked through here this fall to better see what singletrack would look like.

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We're going to go out anyway, even if it's cold. We welcome all sorts of non-motorized activities in Leaders Park. Snowshoes, boots, bikes - what else? Come one out. It's beautiful in the winter too. HOWEVER, if it's wet not frozen, please stay off.

The Riddlebox

Did someone say egg bake? That's us marking our place down there in the bottom right corner of the image. We're happy to have our in-house chef prepping some eggcellent egg bake for Saturday.

RiddleBox Fat Bike Endurance Race - December 14 - register at http://riddlebox.eventzilla.net

BIKE IT!!!

It's Time For An Update. Ready?

First and most importantly - we've moved our trail maintenance day to Sunday. We've moved our trail maintenance time to 3pm. We're keeping our meet spot at Lowell & Homestead the same, at least until we move it.

In summary: 3pm, Sundays, Lowell & Homestead intersection.

There's plenty to do. Seriously.

For example. The Vandals are back and we must keep up with them. The exit ramp off one of the wooden obstacles has been removed and must be replaced. The joy of The Vandals is we never know from week to week what they'll be assigning us.

For another example. It's fall. The leaves are falling. The leaves are falling and covering the trail. The trails are covered with leaves. This presents a grand opportunity. The opportunity is to define the trail by raking the leaves to the edges of the trail. Defining the trail pays dividends well into the next season because it focuses the riding. Help us rake. You don't even need to bag the leaves when you're done. We WANT the leaves to stay.

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Now let's talk about our volunteers. There were 8 of them last Sunday. Yeah. 8. 8. With 8 people stuff gets done.

Adam, Ben and Kyle from FAST! Yeah, they count. Janelle, Pete, AJ, Bob & Colin. First of all, AJ! Second of all, Colin was out riding and got off his bike and picked up a rake.

They improved bench cuts by digging. And they raked. And they rocked.

Volunteers. We owe you. We won't forget.

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