News from Emory

I don't know how to post to the blogger. I guess I need privilege from administrator.

I wanted to post this info on the site.

Trail weekend rays town lake october 9th thru 10. IMBA having a trail work session for 5 projects with RMBA. They're giving free camping 8pm friday october 8th until sunday. Have a talk session in morning and free lunch at 1130am. Then work trail until 5pm.

Free beer party that evening. Free swag give away from imba.

I'm going up 8th to ride, work imba saturday and ride sunday. Here a link from frank mcguire:

https://www.imba.com/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=51

emory

Lights Anyone?

I`m in the market for a set of bike/helmet lights and was wondering if anyone might have some for sale. If not, could someone at least offer some advice on brands and where to pick them up?

RIDE

Sunday will be at OLD FORGE. Ride time 9am

Means Hollow Road

Not sure of where to post this but Means Hollow Road (East) has been newly repaved and is as smooth as glass. Ride this road before the steel-wheeled tractors destroy it.

Mark your calender!

Save Sat. Oct. 2nd!
Swap at Trexler town!
Let me know if anyone is considering a table! Get a few spaces in a row?

Tuesday Woods Ride

Teaberry parking lot 5 pm

Tuesday Road Ride

Don't feel like driving to Shippensburg for the regular Summit Health ride on Tuesday.... wondering if anyone would like to ride from my house to 'Teaberry' parking lot and back. I think it's about 25 miles total. Start time around 5:00-5:15 or so.

RIDE

OOOOOOPS......Sunday will be at Caledonia. Ride time 9am

club ride

is there a ride this sunday?

Travis

Give me a call 352-8580
Dale

Trail Workshop

I'm going to the Trail Workshop tomorrow at least for the first half of the day. Anyone have things to bring up other than the most obvious?

Sunday Local Ride at Teaberry.

I plan to do the 10 mile-ish loop. NOTE: Ride time 10am.
Directions from Greencastle to the parking lot below.
Click here for the link.

RIDE

Sunday will be at the water shed. We will meet at Hamburg road parking lot. Ride time 9am.

T-shirts

Whats wrong with ruffling feathers. How about some new t-shirts! Mine are worn out.

MBM Jerseys...

don't want to ruffle any feathers either, but what's up with them?

MBM Web Page?

don't want to ruffle any feathers, I was just wondering if it was in the works.

Trail Summit Meeting

Trail Summit
November 3rd, 2010

The South Mountain Region Trail Summit will be held for those interested in the state of greenways and trails in Cumberland, Franklin, Adams, and York counties.

link

Summit sessions will engage, educate, and solicit support on efforts to advance the quality and connectivity of current and proposed trails. Trail advocates, volunteers, and organizations are encouraged to attend along with elected municipal officials, staff, or volunteer municipal committees.

Benefits of attending the Summit:

• Hear a "state of the trail report" for the region
• Learn about benefits of trails to communities
• Learn and give input about current high profile trail projects
• Learn the nuts and bolts of trail development in your community
• Engage as a citizen, municipal representative, or community organization to identify important connections and identify trail needs
• Hear case studies of successful projects in the region

Stay tuned for more information in upcoming email blasts!

RIDE

Bucsexy showing his best biking skills.

This Sunday will be at Pine Grove Furnace. Meet at the furnace parking lot. 9Am ride time

Black Mo Race for the Y(mca-a)

Yo, racers! Just starting this race up this year. A great excuse to come up Saturday and enjoy some State College sweetness, then race on Sunday. Or just come on Sunday as race time is a travel friendly 10:45am. (can't Michaux do this?) 100% of your race fee goes directly to the YMCA. They help people stay healthy, won't you? That's my pitch. Sorry for the shameless promotion. Come up and win medals, maybe a prize or two, heckle the promoter, and enjoy a non-techy but stenuous course.

HO

I am back

I am back. http://funwithdevices.blogspot.com/can someone update the link on this blog for me. Not that my new blog is ground breaking but the old link is dead. Thanks, David.

Wednesday Ride???

Is anyone interested in riding Wednesday? I'll be out of town on Tuesday and Thursday this week. Need to get my MTB fix in Wednesday. Maybe a Norchaux ride? Bit of a later start maybe, if it would help anyone. Brett? Anyone??

Scott

map from last Oct.
this makes yesterday's jaunt more understandable. Turtle's future does look better than Upper Buckets and Hearth/Hermit. There were only a few marked trees on Turtle that I saw.
this map shows all the Landings we came across

RIDE

After last weeks hot race I think you all need a nice ride in Mont Alto. I'm going away so you all have a nice ride. Ride time 9am. Congrats to all who did the race.

trails workshop

click it

A horse rider sent this to me to help spread the word and get some mountain bikers involved. Looks like they're taking some trails stuff seriously, and this guy just attended a 3-day trails course at State College. Note the "Why" part specifically.

Would be smart to have some bikers and MBMers there. I'll be away that weekend/week. Weisers will be away. Time for our speedy new El Presi to make something happen? Damaged Inc? Cupcake Mafia? Never a better time and place to have horsers hear what we think, and maybe even get on the same team for some things.

If I could attend, I'd come ready with some locations that need some repair from hooves, like Trees of Tomorrow area, Upper Narrows etc?? I hope someone can make something happen out of this. How often do we get this kind of chance?

If you can't read the flier by clicking and zooming, let me know and I can e-mail it or try to paste in the text by itself.

Michaux Style

Dark Hollow

Hey, did anyone besides Larry, Steve and Travis do the Curse. If so how was it for you? I did not see anybody besides them. I found it to be rather hot at first then froze for a few minutes when it rained. Sprained my ankle at the start during the run. But I was able to finish the forty miler. Then it swelled up after the race. I could not walk on it yesterday. But it feels a lot better today. The forty was fun but tough. Wigwam sucks!

Tuesday Ride 5pm

Meeting at Long Pine reservoir. Start time 5pm.

FMFR (aka - not BOP - Happy Clownbike?)

Successful or unsuccessful attempt at the H-n-H gate? Superior Rider? I will let you decide.

Anyone interested in riding Monday evening 5:15p from the pipeline on Rattlesnake? Doing Virginia and Mackey.

Clownbike - the retarded rooster said you are not invited.

And Now for Some Good News

Or at least better news....

Forestry is hoping for final approval on the Wildcat reroute by October. At least that's the current hope and estimate.

Which means we might be able to build some new official trail in the upcoming "off season".

Whatchu think o' that?

Grave Ridge Timber Sale is Out for Bid

Ride it while it's here, people. The unstoppable timbering machine is grinding forward, trails or not.

Map o' the impending carnage:

Link to the original.

The top of the ridge is the boundary--they are logging the backside of the ridge, out of sight from rt. 233. The access road is going in across from Dead Woman Hollow. You can follow the dashed lines that are trails on the map to figure out where the haul road is overlapping the current trail. I've heard second, third, or fourth hand, that DCNR is going to re-establish the ATV trail after the logging, but it'll be surprising if it's close to the technical nature of the current trail.

Links to Prospectus and Statistics:

http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/forestry/timbersales/prospectus/01-2007BC03.pdf

http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/forestry/timbersales/prospectus/01-2007BC03stats.pdf