Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew visiting Greenville SC_Mar10-13

[Mark Larson]

For More Details about the Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew visit to Greenville SC
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The Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew is IMBA’s grassroots educational program and an authority on sustainable trail building practices. Two teams of trail experts travel year-round throughout North America and beyond, leading trail work sessions, meeting with land managers and working with IMBA-affiliated clubs and the communities they serve to improve mountain biking opportunities.

Tentative Schedule of Events:
A crew weekend is noon Thursday to noon Sunday.

THURSDAY March 10, 2011

Club Care Presentation Open to All

* When: 7 p.m.
* Where: The Great Escape, Greenville SC

Learn how to grow membership, sustain leadership, remain fresh and fun and better reach out to communities.

FRIDAY March 11, 2011

Land Manager Workshop

* When: 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Lunch provided.
* Where: TBD

Land Manager Training educates those overseeing the places where you ride about IMBA’s mission and the methods and importance of sustainable trail building and mountain bike management.

SATURDAY: IMBA TRAIL BUILDING SCHOOL March 12, 2011

IMBA Trail Building School Register Today!

* Classroom location: City Hall, 1st Floor Conference Room, Greenville SC
* When: 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Lunch provided.

Trail Work location:

* Where: Timmons Park, Greenville, SC Directions
* When: 1 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

[COLOR="Red"]Please do not plan to attend the trail work portion if you can’t attend the morning classroom session![/COLOR] Register Today!

Evening Social Open to All

* When: 7 p.m. –
* Where: Chicora Alley ( Dinner and Drink Specials )

SUNDAY March 13, 2011

Group Ride(s) in the morning. Open to All

* Where: Paris Mountain State Park, Greenville SC.
* When: 9 a.m. Main Parking Lot
* Optional social lunch. Barley’s Taproom & Pizzeria ~1 p.m. Open to All

Why was Timmons Park chosen over Croft/Paris Mt./Issaqueena ? we felt that Timmons Park is a cycling resource lost to our community. It used to be a great little mile or so loop which was ideal for an after work ride. After the City Parks and Rec put in the Disc Golf Course, their only goal was to bring people to the park. Co-locating the Disc Holes along the Bike Trail was the easiest thing for them to do… Today the bike trail is almost completely unrecognizable; there are some sections where once was singletrack trail, and now there are 20+ foot paths down the hillside.

The Greenville Spinners at one time used to be the Trail Stewards of Timmons Park before Upstate SORBA ever existed. UpstateSORBA felt this was a great opportunity to create a partnership with the Spinners and the City of Greenville, and hopefully this will be the first of many projects together.

This IMBA Trail Care Crew (TCC) visit to Timmons isn’t going to rebuild the Trails at Timmons Park in a day! It will however be a start with a Training Program to get local riders involved and with the TCC’s input and instruction on rebuilding some of the problem areas at the Park. We will be looking at possibilities of rerouting some sections where most user conflicts occur between the disc golf and riders, and possibly take the trail to the outer edges of the park property above the disc gold course.

So depending on how many people we get registered for the trail building class & work day we may only get a couple of hundred feet of trail worked in 4 hours… Our goal is to come up with a plan to make Timmons rideable again, and more than likely that will take several trail workdays.

All of the Events Thursday/Saturday/and Sunday are free and open to the Public. If you want to come out and work at Timmons Saturday you must register online and attend the Trail Building Instruction Class that morning.

Thanks
bRad

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