Club News: Southeast

IMBA Trail News
Volume 15, Number 5
Winter 2002

SORBA, the Southeast's trailbuilding powerhouse, has begun work on a new trail system at Camp Lynwood Hayne near Augusta, Georgia. The Boy Scout property serves about 500 local scouts who will contribute to the design and construction of a nearly five-mile network during the next several years. SORBA is providing training, design and mechanized construction expertise.

Trail enthusiasts from around the country gathered in November for the 16th National Trails Symposium at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort in central Florida. IMBA played an important role as a sponsor and by leading Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew events. With more than 15 IMBA-affiliated clubs, Florida ranks as one of mountain biking's most dialed-in states.

Southeast singletrack has benefited from both Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew teams this Fall. The trailbuilding gurus made recent stops in Parkersburg and Grantsville, West Virginia, Nantahala, Greensboro, and Wilkes County North Carolina, and Williams, Virginia.

News from Miami-Dade County: the reopening of the trail system at Amelia Earhart Park has been a great success. Steve Rodriguez and the "In Da House Crew" have done an outstanding job resurrecting the trail system that was closed after neglect raised safety concerns. They currently have five miles of outstanding singletrack including North Shore-style stunts.