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The network of mountain bike trails in the Lake Tahoe Basin is steadily growing and becoming more sustainable thanks to the U.S. Forest Service, the Tahoe Area Mountain Biking Association and a small army of dedicated volunteers.The mountain biking association holds work days throughout the summer to build and maintain Forest Service trails, with most of the actual grunt work volunteer-based. TAMBA Trails Director Ben Fish estimates the group has devoted about 1,000 volunteer hours since last July to South Shore trails.
“We’re all volunteers and we just do this for the passion. I’ve been riding these trails for years now and these new plans are really going to improve these trails,” Fish said.
Those new plans include a complete redesign of the Lower Corral Trail that will add about 30 features to the route, and a series of new trails and connectors in the Lake Tahoe -Nevada State Park. According to TAMBA President Kevin Joell, work on the new Sunflower Hill Trail in the park should be completed on Aug. 11.
The 2.6-mile route has been under construction for the past three years, and Joell estimates that volunteers did about 90 percent of the work. The trail is part of a park-wide project to create what Joell terms, the “super loop,” a network of trails that would connect routes like the Tahoe Rim Trail and the Red House Flume to get riders off the fire roads.
Overall, it’s about 15 additional miles of single-track, Joell said.
Read more here: http://www.tahoedailytribune.com/articl … ofile=1063
While I rode ~34 miles of trail near Lake Tahoe, there are SO MANY trails in the region that I didn’t get a chance to ride any of the trail listed in this article… just goes to show how good the riding is in Tahoe, and how much I need to get back there!
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