Posted in Beer, Bike Clubs, Copper Harbor, Keweenaw, Mountain Biking, Trail Work, Trekkers on Aug 25th, 2008
Sunday Trail Day
It’s the week before Christmas . . . er, Fat Tire, and I have the anticipation that a child would have for presents. I have a great week planned, and it has started off properly, considering the climactic event.
Yesterday was the weekly Copper Harbor trail day. I showed up early to [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Copper Harbor, IMBA, Keweenaw, Mountain Biking, Trail Work on Aug 3rd, 2008
Yesterday’s IMBA classroom work was quite interesting. Today, we applied what we learned. We built a trail on Michigan Nature Association property attaching to the Garden Brook multi-use trail. The results were interesting.
The trail crew.
I say interesting, because our IMBA trail crew was quite surprised. Let’s consider the facts:
* 50 people, [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Copper Harbor, IMBA, Keweenaw, Mountain Biking, Trail Work on Aug 1st, 2008
Kelly and Collins Bishop are visiting the Keweenaw to conduct the IMBA Trail School in Copper Harbor, this weekend. Forty-five to fifty people will be attending this workshop.
Kelly and Collins arrived last night and began their introductory tour of the Keweenaw trails this morning. They had a morning ride at Michigan [...]
Posted in Finding Time, Mountain Biking, Trail Work on Jul 28th, 2008
I set out, yesterday, with fellow mountain biker, Dan, to commute via rail-to-trail to Calumet to help lop some of the Swedetown trails in preparation for the upcoming Great Deer Chase. Six of us set out on bikes to lop trails. Dan and I cleared the Lakeview Trail.
See Dan lop. [...]