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Hood River Area Trail Stewards: Newsletter #5 for Spring 2024

By White Lotus Sports on May 8, 2024 • ( 0 )

Hello Trail Lovers,

This week: A closer look at A-Side in Post Canyon.

Thank you to our co-builders/adopters Maurizio von Flotow and Tyler Horton for all their hard work. Since its opening, some of you have taken the opportunity to ride this new 100% hand-built single-track downhill trail, and it’s burning in nicely. As it sees more and more tracks, Maurizio and Tyler expect A-Side to change over the coming weeks, months, and years making it even better, and they’ve got their eyes out for erosion and are planning on updating sections as needed. Help them by getting your tires on it! See highlighted trail on the map below for it’s location in Post Canyon.

Please consider a few easy opportunities to jump in and help:

Drink beer, support HRATS!

Grab a special pint from April 20th to May 20th at Double Mountain, Everybody’s, Ferment, Freebridge, Hood River Brewing, pFriem, Spinning Wheels, and Working Hands. Each brewery will donate $1 for every pint sold of their featured beer.

In addition, Full Sail will donate a portion of the proceeds from beer and food sales to HRATS every Tuesday in May.

Kickstand is running THREE fundraisers this month. All month long they will be donating $1 from every slushy cocktail sold (Margarita and Vodka Watermelon) and doing register round-ups to give anyone the option of throwing HRATS a couple bucks. Then, during The Cascadia Dirt Cup (Friday 5/17 – Sunday 5/19) they will be donating $3 from each pint of pFriem IPA sold.

Plenty of options to come out and support HRATS. So, what are you waiting for? Go out, drink a beer, and support the trails!

Visit Hood River has offered a $10,000 matching grant to support trail building at Post Canyon. We need your help to raise $10,000 to meet this exciting funding opportunity for local trails.

Here’s a shout out from our friends from The Cascadia Dirt Cup Enduro Race:

Calling all Volunteers! The Cascadia Dirt Cup is back in town May 18-19, and stoked to start its eleventh season on our favorite Post Canyon trails. If you can’t join us for the race, consider volunteering. These races only run as well as they do through support from folks like you and your repeat willingness to join our 50-person volunteer squad. Timing, sweeping, course marshaling, and more, we have a variety of options and positions that need filling. Supporting our amazing volunteers this year is Schwalbe Tires who are providing “Buy one get one” codes for all of our CDC volunteers. Buy one new Schwalbe Tire, get one free. What else happens when you volunteer? Well, your efforts are what fuel our ability to give out our $8,000 check to HRATS at the end of the race. Just one part of the $45,000 that we put back into the trails every season.

Contact: https://signup.com/Group/1003388896034/.

This spring, HRATS, in partnership with Hood River County and with the support of our community, built an incredible amount of new trails. We’ve got some more work on the schedule that need funds to complete, please consider supporting HRATS today with a tax-deductible donation: HRATS Donations Button.

Happy Trails,

HRATS

Trails Closing Today. (May 8th, 2024)

Hi Everyone,

Sorry for the double email hit today. The message below is from Hood River County Forestry and their plan to spray herbicide in the Hood River County Forest, including Post Canyon. Please read.

HRATS

The Forestry Dept. is planning to conduct ground & aerial herbicide applications on the morning of Thursday, 5/9/24 to promote reforestation survival. Several trails in Post Canyon as well as the Pinemont Loop will be closed this afternoon. Some trails will reopen at the conclusion of the operation and others will remain closed for 48hrs. It is our goal to reopen trails as quickly as possible. For safety the safety of all, we ask that once established, no one enter or tamper with the closures until they can safely be reopened. The trails to remain closed for 48 hours include: