News Briefs - Rockies

IMBA Trail News
Volume 15, Number 3
Summer 2002

Forest fires are burning throughout southern portion of the Rocky Mountain region. Large tracts of public land in Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico are closed to public use due to the wildfire danger. Please respect these closures and be sure to ride only where you know the trails are open.

On June 1, National Trails Day, the Denver-based IMBA affiliate Trail Conservation Services and the Parker-Elizabeth Riding Club, an equestrian organization, worked on the Indian Creek trail system in the Pike National Forest. The groups removed debris from several homestead buildings on the property, and revitalized an eroded social trail.

The Arizona Trail Association, Mountain Bike Association of Arizona, Sonoran Desert Mountain Bicyclists and Volunteers for Outdoor Arizona are working to create a work crew leader certification program. The program will ensure that trailwork is done safely, properly and effectively.

IMBA continued its partnership with the Rivers, Trails & Conservation Assistance arm of the National Park Service with two Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew visits. The crew hosted Trailbuilding Schools in conjunction with the Basin and Range Trail Advocates of Las Vegas, Nevada, and the Silver Spokes Bike Club in Silver City, New Mexico this summer.

Editor's note: Special congratulations to IMBA's Trail Care Crew coordinator and Rocky Mountain Backyard scribe Jody Flemming and his wife Elizabeth on the birth of their first child, Owen Cade Flemming. Tests reveal that Owen Cade has a high VO2 Max and lactate threshold limit, making him an early favorite for the Tour de France in 2028.