Club Notes: Rockies

IMBA Trail News
Volume 15, Number 4
Fall 2002

Mountain bikers in Helena, MT, can save a 400-acre Wakina Sky Gulch Area parcel from development by contributing to the Prickley Pear Land Trust. If the trust raises enough money to buy the land from its current owners, the tract will become public land and singletrack trail access will continue. Donations can be sent to: PPLT, PO Box 892, Helena, MT 59624. Please label donations "land protection fund".

A freeride race series is scheduled for this fall outside of Las Vegas. Each race features a different 12 - 15 mile course with approximately 70% downhill riding. Contact Blue Diamond Outpost for details, www.bikeoutpost.com.

Round Trip Bike Shop in Casa Grande, AZ, will host new trail construction work days on the Arizona Trail in Pinal County on October 26 and November 16-17. Contact Kent Taylor for details 520-836-0799.

Be a part of New Belgium Brewery's Tour de Fat as it rolls through Missoula, MT, Boulder, CO, Durango, CO and Flagstaff, AZ this fall. All proceeds from the "ballyhoo of bicycles and beer" event go to local bicycle advocacy groups. Last year's event in Missoula generated $2,400 which aided the construction of new singletrack on Mount Jumbo by more than 65 volunteers.

The eighth annual 24 Hours of Moab hit Moab, UT October 12-13. Visit www.grannygear.com for info.