Club Notes: Pacific

IMBA Trail News
Volume 14, Number 2
Early Summer 2001

California received lots of attention from the Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew this spring. The crew's latest tour featured stops in San Diego, Crestline, Orange County, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Hollister, Fairfax, and Berkeley. They'll return to the Golden State in November.

Washington's WHIMPs are working with Northwest Ecosystem Alliance and the Sierra Club to preserve Blanchard Mountain in Skagit County. The area is slated for timber harvest but activists are hoping to convince officials to preserve the parcel. Trails in the area are open to non-motorized use. Details: www.ecosystem.org.

ROMP reports that the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District has opened 1.4 miles of the Ridge Trail in Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve to bicyclists. The route is part of the Bay Area Ridge Trail (BART) which will eventually encircle San Francisco Bay. This summer, officials will consider allowing bikes on the Windy Hill sections of the BART. ROMP urges local cyclists to monitor www.romp.org to learn how they can help.

ROMP's Berry Stevens and many others deserve two thumbs up for working with land managers to design and build new singletrack just south of San Francisco in Belmont's Water Dog Park.

The Stewards of Soquel Demonstration Forest is a new multi-use group formed to help land managers of this recreation area located between San Jose and Santa Cruz.

MBOSC is holding the third annual Carrot Fest clinic with the Santa Cruz County Horseman's Association in Wilder Ranch State Park on June 9th. The event helps desensitize horses to bikes and educates cyclists about how to safely share the trail with equestrians. www.mbosc.org.