Spokane Area Trails Meetings

[small change]

looks like some things are getting organized here. Two meetings coming up,
one is tomorrow night so sorry for the short notice.

At the last meeting of Inland Northwest Trails, it was decided to form
committees to work on different interests within our broad spectrum of
advocacy.

The rural recreational trails committee will be meeting on October 13. If
you have an interest in hiking on soft trails, equestrian, mountain biking,
etc. please join us for this meeting.

City bike routes will not be discussed ... anyone doing so will be
dispatched on their bicycle to do a century!
Inland Northwest Trails
committee meeting on recreational trails
Wednesday, October 13, 6:00 pm
Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce
801 W. Riverside
Main Floor Conference Room


and,

Friends of Mount Spokane will be having a meeting as a precursor to
developing an overall plan for trail development at Mt Spokane State Park.
This is the advisory council I believe, the public comment time period is
not open YET.

here's the info I have on that one.

The
Friends Group decided to take the initiative and work on a proposal for a
permanent trail plan that would go to the Commission and then go out to the
community for discussion and approval. If we don't get this started, it
will never happen. Since the Commission is requiring a trail plan before
any other trail modifications are made, in its absence there can be no
further improvements to the system and it will continue to degrade. Our
next meeting is Tuesday, November 2 at 6:30 PM at the Argonne Library and
you are welcome to attend.

 

[Dave in Spokane]

"small change" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

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> City bike routes will not be discussed ... anyone doing so will be
> dispatched on their bicycle to do a century!
> Inland Northwest Trails
> committee meeting on recreational trails
> Wednesday, October 13, 6:00 pm
> Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce
> 801 W. Riverside
> Main Floor Conference Room
>
>
Geez, I'm a day late (well maybe a couple) again....and I wouldn't have
walk even a block to go to the meeting.

--
Dave in Spokane

 

[small change]

Dave in Spokane wrote:!
>> Inland Northwest Trails
>> committee meeting on recreational trails> Geez, I'm a day late (well
maybe a couple) again....and I wouldn't
> have walk even a block to go to the meeting.

this was the rural trails sub group of the newly formed Inland NW Trails
Assoc. They are still getting into gear. I went just as a visitor to see
what it was about. There was quite a bit of talk about connecting a lot of
the various regional rail trails - the Milwaukee line which is the
Hiawatha- Trail of the CDA's with the Columbia Plateau Trail and the John
Wayne. Talk of how to and which ones of various grants the group might have
access too. A report on the status of the Dream Trail... trying to connect
Dishman Mica with Rocks of Sharon; still of lot of private property up
there.

Also, the backcountry horsemen's group which made those nice maps of
Riverside and Mount Spokane are about to publish edition 2 of those. Ideas
were kicked around about just doing an informal local trail inventory..
everything from the rail trails to ?? just to see what's out there, and how
to maybe connect them, what's legal, what isn't etc.

I had a nice chat with some of the horsemen, nice too see that they too
think that user conflicts are not a problem around here, at least when it
comes to horses and bikers. When I told them about some other areas where
either trails have been totally closed to bikes, or the alternate day
scenario that I've read about , there was genuine surprise that those kinds
of things happen elsewhere.

penny