My local trail group (Durango), yours?

Craig Brossman

While many of the regulars here are both knowledgeable and
involved in their local advocacy organizations, I thought it
might be useful to have a thread which announces your local
group. Newbies and lurkers may not be aware of groups their
area, I don't think any of us would turn down additional
active members.

In Durango one organization is Trails 2000, run by Bill
Manning. There are others with more specific tasks like
Colorado Trail work. Bill is a personal friend, but
independent of that, he does a wonderful job prompting new
trails, maintaining trails, and keeping up with local
issues where trails may be involved, or possibly planned.
He is an advocate for bikers, hikers and horse people and
is currently involved in planning a bike path from Bayfield
to Durango.

I don't want to step on any toes, but I have recently met
some guys from Cortez/Dolores starting up the Kokopelli
Trail Group. I don't have a lot of info, but the bike shop
in town (by a similar name) will have more info.

Support your local group!!!

--
Craig Brossman, Durango Colorado (remove ".nospam" to reply)

Ride-A-Lot

Craig Brossman wrote:
> While many of the regulars here are both knowledgeable and
> involved in their local advocacy organizations, I thought
> it might be useful to have a thread which announces your
> local group. Newbies and lurkers may not be aware of
> groups their area, I don't think any of us would turn down
> additional active members.
>
> In Durango one organization is Trails 2000, run by Bill
> Manning. There are others with more specific tasks like
> Colorado Trail work. Bill is a personal friend, but
> independent of that, he does a wonderful job prompting new
> trails, maintaining trails, and keeping up with local
> issues where trails may be involved, or possibly planned.
> He is an advocate for bikers, hikers and horse people and
> is currently involved in planning a bike path from
> Bayfield to Durango.
>
> I don't want to step on any toes, but I have recently met
> some guys from Cortez/Dolores starting up the Kokopelli
> Trail Group. I don't have a lot of info, but the bike shop
> in town (by a similar name) will have more info.
>
> Support your local group!!!

My local group is the Jersey Action Riders
(www.jerseyactionriders.org) run by Jay Jones. We are active
in trail maintenance and advicacy around the area including
Wissahickon Park in Philadelphia, PA. We partner will other
trail groups for maintenance at Mercer County Park and Fair
Hill, NRMA. Jay is also our rep for JORBA (Jersey Off Road
Bicycle Association) and IMBA. JAR is instrumental in
bringing the IMBA/Subaru Trail Care team to this area.

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Carla A-G

"Craig Brossman" <brossman@durango.net> wrote in message
news:caa38002jtq@enews1.newsguy.com...
> While many of the regulars here are both knowledgeable and
> involved in their local advocacy organizations, I thought
> it might be useful to have a thread which announces your
> local group. Newbies and lurkers may not be aware of
> groups their area, I don't think any of us would turn down
> additional active members.

Concerned Long Island Mountain Bicyclists (CLIMB):
http://www.climbonline.org

Vision MTB, a local mtb community: http://www.visionmtb.com

Jim is the trail steward for the GreenBelt Trail. We do
our share of trail work on our own and sometimes with
work parties.

- CA-G

Can-Am Girls Kick Ass!

Roger Buchanan

Craig Brossman wrote:

> Support your local group!!!

I help out with two different trails, neither of which I can
ride on. It's still a great way to meet people, share a
common interest in the sport, and learn new things though.

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- Rog

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Shawn Curry

Craig Brossman wrote:
> While many of the regulars here are both knowledgeable and
> involved in their local advocacy organizations, I thought
> it might be useful to have a thread which announces your
> local group. Newbies and lurkers may not be aware of
> groups their area, I don't think any of us would turn down
> additional active members.
>
> In Durango one organization is Trails 2000, run by Bill
> Manning. There are others with more specific tasks like
> Colorado Trail work. Bill is a personal friend, but
> independent of that, he does a wonderful job prompting new
> trails, maintaining trails, and keeping up with local
> issues where trails may be involved, or possibly planned.
> He is an advocate for bikers, hikers and horse people and
> is currently involved in planning a bike path from
> Bayfield to Durango.
>
> I don't want to step on any toes, but I have recently met
> some guys from Cortez/Dolores starting up the Kokopelli
> Trail Group. I don't have a lot of info, but the bike shop
> in town (by a similar name) will have more info.
>
> Support your local group!!!

In case Tom Purvis is out riding rather than cleaning house
(like me) http://www.arkansasvalley.net/cycling/club/ Tom or
me can get you hooked in.

Shawn

Monique Y. Muda

In the Boulder, CO area there's the Boulder Offroad
Alliance. They do group rides, trail building efforts, and
work the political scene to try to keep the mountain in
mountain biking. I've paid my dues but haven't yet joined in
any of the activities.

Their website:

http://www.boa-mtb.org/

--
monique

Pas

Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
> In the Boulder, CO area there's the Boulder Offroad
> Alliance. They do group rides, trail building efforts, and
> work the political scene to try to keep the mountain in
> mountain biking. I've paid my dues but haven't yet joined
> in any of the activities.
>
> Their website:
>
> http://www.boa-mtb.org/

nothing going on around here. There's no mountain biking
club at all. There are some clubs that have mtb as a facet
of one of many activities. The womens' bike club I belong to
is very road heavy, and I have been informed that
advocacy/issues and politics is not part of the program.

The one guy who is the Fat Tire association has brought
the IMBA trail care crew into town, that was a lot of fun
to go help out.

Penny

Ride-A-Lot

pas wrote:
> Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
>> In the Boulder, CO area there's the Boulder Offroad
>> Alliance. They do group rides, trail building efforts,
>> and work the political scene to try to keep the mountain
>> in mountain biking. I've paid my dues but haven't yet
>> joined in any of the activities.
>>
>> Their website:
>>
>> http://www.boa-mtb.org/
>
> nothing going on around here. There's no mountain biking
> club at all. There are some clubs that have mtb as a facet
> of one of many activities. The womens' bike club I belong
> to is very road heavy, and I have been informed that
> advocacy/issues and politics is not part of the program.
>
> The one guy who is the Fat Tire association has brought
> the IMBA trail care crew into town, that was a lot of fun
> to go help out.
>
> Penny

Perfect opportunity for you to start a group. IMBA can help
you get started. They have several programs and fact sheets
available for starting a MTB group.

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Jd

I don' agree with the politics of this group, especially
from one particular board member in Montrose. Political BS
aside, they organize most of the trail work in the area. The
trail maintenance/building crews around here are a separate
entity that is headed up by someone who rides. That makes
attending organized trailwork a lot easier to do.

http://www.copmoba.com/

JD

Tcmedara

Craig Brossman <brossman@durango.net> wrote:
> While many of the regulars here are both knowledgeable and
> involved in their local advocacy organizations, I thought
> it might be useful to have a thread which announces your
> local group. Newbies and lurkers may not be aware of
> groups their area, I don't think any of us would turn down
> additional active members.
>
> In Durango one organization is Trails 2000, run by Bill
> Manning. There are others with more specific tasks like
> Colorado Trail work. Bill is a personal friend, but
> independent of that, he does a wonderful job prompting new
> trails, maintaining trails, and keeping up with local
> issues where trails may be involved, or possibly planned.
> He is an advocate for bikers, hikers and horse people and
> is currently involved in planning a bike path from
> Bayfield to Durango.
>
> I don't want to step on any toes, but I have recently met
> some guys from Cortez/Dolores starting up the Kokopelli
> Trail Group. I don't have a lot of info, but the bike shop
> in town (by a similar name) will have more info.
>
> Support your local group!!!

Word.

www.evma.org

Tom

Tom Purvis

Shawn Curry <speriodthespiceorcomb@bresnan.net> wrote:
> Craig Brossman wrote:
> > In Durango one organization is Trails 2000, run by Bill
> > Manning.

Trails 2000 is a wonderful organization. What Durango has
achieved in terms of new singletrack trail miles in the last
5 years, thanks entirely to Trails 2000, is nothing short of
miraculous. I read a recent Denver Post article about Bill
Manning. He should be cannonized by the Church of the
Rotating Rubber. It would be an honor to volunteer for such
a great organization.

> In case Tom Purvis is out riding rather than cleaning
> house (like me)
> http://www.arkansasvalley.net/cycling/club/

The Arkansas Valley Cycling Club is just getting momentum.
There's going to be a BLM-driven Travel Management Plan
gearing up next year around here. We're trying to be
prepared to participate in that. Lots of our close-in all-
season riding terrain is on BLM. The Forest Service may
participate in the TMP here, since we have lots of "user-
created trails" that span USFS and BLM land. We're hoping to
get as many of the good trails as possible blessed, and lay
the groundwork for developing a trail system. But right now
our key goal is to become known as good guys in the local
community.

Recently we've had a crisis where 4-wheelers have started
riding illegally on sections of our Rainbow Trail that are
strictly 2-wheel legal. Motorcycles are allowed, and have
been since the western parts of the Rainbow were built. And
cyclists get along fine with them here for the most part.
But the 4-wheelers are running amok around here. They're
cutting new trails all over the southern rockies, and
appropriating singletrack to be made into little roads. The
Arkansas Valley Cycling Club has been trying to get things
done to choke and re-sign some of the areas. Enforcement is
so sparse, very discouraging. The club has offered to do a
special volunteer effort to choke and reclaim the trail, but
it's hard to get clearance even to do that.

Anybody who has questions about the AVCC should go to the
site contacts page
(http://www.arkansasvalley.net/cycling/club/contact.html)
and drop us a line.
--
Tom Purvis
Salida, CO - http://www.arkansasvalley.net/tpurvis/

Scott G

> While many of the regulars here are both knowledgeable and
> involved in their local advocacy organizations, I thought
> it might be useful to have a thread which announces your
> local group.

The Trails 2000 gang has done a great job in Durango. Those
maps along the trail are fantastic (rode there last Oct)

Our local club is the Pensacola Off-Road Cyclists, or PORC (
www.porc.org ) We are a group of about 50 riders and are
mainly involved in trail maintenance. Our new jersey is
pretty sweet too! ( http://porc.org/jersey/jersey.jpg )

Scott

Craig Brossman

Tom Purvis wrote:

>
> Trails 2000 is a wonderful organization. What Durango has
> achieved in terms of new singletrack trail miles in the
> last 5 years, thanks entirely to Trails 2000, is nothing
> short of miraculous. I read a recent Denver Post article
> about Bill Manning. He should be cannonized by the Church
> of the Rotating Rubber. It would be an honor to volunteer
> for such a great organization.
>

I'm talking to him even as I read this. He really is a super
guy, I don't always like the fact that he removes rocks from
trails, but he has his reasons, and there are still plenty
of technical trails in the area.

It is interesting to note that his background, before taking
over Trails 2000, was with the oil and gas industry in
Denver. He told me that one day he decided he needed
something more rewarding and useful to do.

--
Craig Brossman, Durango Colorado (remove ".nospam" to reply)

Bb

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:45:53 -0600, Craig Brossman wrote:
> While many of the regulars here are both knowledgeable and
> involved in their local advocacy organizations, I thought
> it might be useful to have a thread which announces your
> local group.

Portland, Oregon: Portland United Mountain Peddlers (PUMP,
www.pumpclub.org). They host massive group rides 3-4 times a
week, as well as trail maintenance. I've joined in on the
trail work, but I avoid the group rides..I'm more of a
"Portland Independent Mountain Peddler".

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