Northwest Trail Alliance June Events

By White Lotus Sports on June 2, 2014 • ( 0 )

2014 NWTA Membership Drive
(all month)

Membership in the Northwest Trail Alliance supports a range of events and programs which give back to our local trails. NWTA works hard to maintain and build access for mountain bikers from Tillamook State Forest to Mt. Hood. Membership dollars provide necessary financial support, while member numbers lend legitimacy in the eyes of the land managers and planners we work with on a day-to-day basis. This month, we’re pushing to exceed over 1000 members; we’re confident we can do it with your help.

Now is the time to become a member, or to renew is your membership has lapsed. Your NWTA membership also makes you an IMBA member, meaning you’ll be supporting mountain bike advocacy at the national level, as well as gaining access to pro deals on all kind of retail items through Promotive (www.promotive.com). And if you’re in the market for a new car to get you to the trailhead, Subaru offers financial discounts to IMBA members on new car purchases. Go above and beyond the standard membership with a tax-deductible donation to NWTA before June 18th and earn additional rewards. Sign up today.

-DAVE ROTH
Director, Northwest Trail Alliance

June 7
National Trails Day:
Sandy Ridge Shuttle Day

What better way to celebrate National Trails Day than to head out to Sandy Ridge for a day of trail riding with shuttle service. Space is limited, get yours! Current NWTA/IMBA members can pre-register to reserve their spot! See flyer below for all the nitty-gritty.

More info at http://www.nw-trail.org/SRTShuttleFundraiser2014

June 7
Mt St Helens Coldwater Lake
Work Event & Campout

To celebrate National Trails Day, we will be out in force at Coldwater Lake on the north side of Mount St. Helens on Saturday, June 7th.

Last year’s work party drew only 75 volunteers. We are aiming for 100 this time, so get your name on the list and start browbeating your friends. NO DOGS AT THIS EVENT.

To say the project is a large one is a sizable understatement. The scope includes work on a 12-mile loop comprised of the 211, 230, and 230A. Last year, we also hit about a mile of the 230A from the back of Coldwater Lake toward St. Helens Lake. Depending on the number of volunteers and the snow conditions, we are hoping to do more in this area.

Last year’s epic end-of-the-day party will be hard to beat, but we will do our best.

Camping spots are available both Friday and Saturday nights. Contact Mel atbikeschic@yahoo.com to reserve a spot. Also, there is a high likelihood that those who stay Saturday night will ride on Sunday.

All details regarding crew assignments, tools, etc. will be available as we get closer.

More info and videos: http://writeteknorthwest.com/archives/14935/mega-build-at-coldwater-is-on-for-june-7th

June 14
Mountain Man Challenge:
Bear Springs ST & XC Races

The Challenge

The Fat Tire Farm and Hurricane Racing are taking mountain bike racing back to its roots. When men and women weren’t pigeon-holed into genres and sub-genres of racing a mountain bike. Downhilling involved a timed hillclimb.

So here’s the challenge: complete four races across all genres of modern mountain biking. To be competitive in the overall requires speed going down and up–from flow to technical trails, you’ve got to be able to do it all. All races carry points toward an overall title.

This race is open to all, and we’d love to see some new faces out there. In order to make it more accessible, we’ve tried to keep the cost of entry down. And, you don’t need an OBRA license to race.

http://www.mountainmanchallenge.com

June 21
Tillamook State Forest
New trail build day

9:30am – 2:00pm
All of the new trail construction parties this year will be on the Step Creek Trail out of Reehers Camp. We sign in at 9:30am at the North end of the Gales Creek Trail. That trail head is at the Reehers Camp Day Use Area located at Milepost 2.25 on Cochran Road in Timber Oregon. Please call your NWTA trail steward Wayne Naillon at 503-284-4892 for additional details.

June 21
Stub Stewart Work Day
In partnership with pdw

“Last year’s Sandy Ridge Work Day went so well, we’ve decided to organize our friends to get out and dig in the dirt again this summer! Please join us Saturday, June 21 for a work day at LL “Stub” Stewart State Park.” – pdw

Meet us at the Clayhill Horse Staging Area, located at the very end of the Park’s main road (see link to Park map below). We’ll be shuttling into the park for closer access to the trails under construction, so please don’t be late! Come prepared with work boots, gloves and water. We’ll provide the trail building tools. And definitely bring your bike for easy trail access and post-work rides!

June 22
Sunday Parkways:
North Portland

11am-4pm (9.5 miles)
Cruise along the scenic Willamette Boulevard, and then glide towards Peninsula, Arbor Lodge, Kenton, Columbia Annex and McCoy Parks to enjoy an array of activities, food, music, vendors and fun. For this Sunday Parkways event, NWTA will be co-locating our skills park at the New Columbia Bike Park to create a Super Bike Skills Course.

June 28
NWTA Family Night Ride,
Bonfire and Campout at
Cascade Locks

6:00 pm

PEDALPALOZA OR SOMETHING- JUST ANOTHER EXCUSE TO HAVE A BONFIRE, AND RIDE AROUND LIKE A KID!

Join Camas Bikes and the Dimwits for another popular night ride, bonfire extravaganza. IF we cant have a fire, we will have a movie. But we will ride around in circles on the trail and you can check out the NEW Deaf Jam section it is the Best section yet, if we say so our self since we built it.

Camas Bikes

All information from the Northwest Trail Alliance
http://www.NW-Trail.org