Pacific

IMBA Trail News
Volume 13, Number 1
Spring 2000

Out West IMBA clubs are burning birthday cakes worth of calories on trail projects that make everyone else drool.

Last year SCAAB (Stockton Cyclists Are Always Bleeding) helped inaugurate the Coyote Point Trail at New Hogan Reservoir in Valley Springs, California. This 10-mile out-and-back trail, accessed via Lake Shore Rim Trail and managed by both the BLM and the Army Corps of Engineers, is touted as a technical, switchbacking, off camber blast. Ready to scab up? Check out www.scaab.web.com.

Congrats to the WHIMPers (Whatcom Independent Mountain Pedalers) for the great work they have done with the trails in the rocky hills and mountains near Bellingham, Washington.

In mid-March the BUMP Patrol (Bellingham Urban Mountain Patrol) starts operation in cooperation with the local parks departments, following IMBA's mountain bike patrol guidelines.

Mount Hood National Forest (Oregon) completed a route that circles Timothy Lake. This new 15-mile loop shares a bridge with the Pacific Crest Trail, then follows new singletrack and roads around the lake. The rangers in the forest's Zigzag District should hear the appropriate kudos (503-622-7674; www.fs.fed.us/r6/mthood/).

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- John Zilly, Adventure Press