Due to the shortening days, the start time for the Tuesday Night Rides will be shifting to 5:30 p.m. beginning this coming Tuesday, September 23rd. Yesterday, Tom Anderson and I went over to the Nature Park and did a ride through in anticipation of this year’s event. We have a working plan in place for the new course which draws heavily from Tate’s course last year. I think it is a good course which utilizes the features of the Nature Park pretty well. If anyone would like to preview the new course and offer some feedback, I would invite you to bring your cross bike to the TNR this week. The route I am proposing for Tuesday is a fairly direct Menan loop (west to Mother Hibbard’s, south to Bear World, Menan-Lorenzo Highway west to Menan, north between the buttes, east on Highway 33/Main Street with a side trip to the Nature Park).
As many of you know, Scott Wood has identified an opportunity to help leave a local legacy in the construction of a new mountain bike trail. See an (abridged) version of our correspondence below. For those of you familiar with the area, the new trail is just north of the 7-N Ranch (a little past Heise Rock). We have looked at a several dates for this project. A Saturday would be ideal, but we have too many conflicts with races and cycling events. We are planning to do this on Tuesday September 30th. I am planning to be at Sticks and Stones along with Scott at 4:30. I will bring the Trooper, so I can transport four additional people and quite a few tools. Scott’s plan is to depart at 4:30 with as many people as possible and for the rest to follow at 5:30. We have a limited amout of daylight so the early departure is preferable for those who can make it. In addition to Scott’s list, remember to bring work gloves and a flashlight or headlamp. If we can mobilize a big group of people, we can accomplish a lot in one evening.
I am aware of the difficulties in keeping the distribution list up to date and I realize that not all of the local cyclists read the Rexburg Cycling blog or Kellen’s Rexburg Cycling Facebook page, so I am appealing to everyone who gets this message to help spread it by forwarding the email and directing people to the blog and Facebook page as well as the old standby word-of-mouth. Dave
I went out to the place yesterday and rode the portion of the trail Mike has worked on and it is great. He was thrilled with the prospect of people coming to help. Tell people to bring rakes, shovels or any other digging tool. Mike has a lot of tools out there. The earlier we leave the better to give us as much time as possible before it gets dark. Perhaps we could have two groups go out – I could meet with a group at Sticks and Stones at 4:30 then the rest could come at 5:30. If people wanted to bring their bikes to ride the part of the trail which is completed I am sure he would not mind – he wants as much input as he can get. If you think we could get more people by waiting until the 30th that would be fine too. Let me know what you think. Thanks for your support for this, Scott
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