Canyon Lake TCC Visit and planning

[jburatti]

Okay,

I think we have the tentative dates set for the IMBA Trail Care Crew (http://www.imba.com/tcc) visit to Canyon Lake, Feb. 21-23. I'm not 100% certain on that as the Corps said they have boat shows in February.

Sorry I haven't been around. My brother Dewayne is working on a trail at Lake Georgetown (also Corps) and he has a April 1st deadline so i've been driving up there and helping him flag trail the past few weeks. We're almost finished flagging.

We (the club with no name) probably need to get together with the Corps and decide what we want out of this visit - A trail assessment of what we have, help planning the next phase, a trail school (2 day weekend event), etc. Anything is possible.

How many of you have had any formal training in trail planning and building? Is anyone interested in that?

james

[joetoeclips]

I'd love to get some formal training.

Trail-wise, we should clean up what we have and then plan and finish what needs to be done so it becomes a loop (a marked one-way, loop).

[jburatti]

Originally posted by joetoeclips
I'd love to get some formal training.

Trail-wise, we should clean up what we have and then plan and finish what needs to be done so it becomes a loop (a marked one-way, loop).

One-way loops are rarely needed or enforcable. I'd see no reason to make this one-way as it basically cuts the riding variations in half.

james

[2 Treks]

Train me.

[SA Planner]

I would be interested in some formal training.

[J.H.]

It looks like these dates will hold true for the IMBA visit. I should be hearing from Avery Stonich, TCC coordinator, this week to confirm. I will post as soon as we have the actual schedule firmed out. Tentatively it looks like this: Friday the 21st will be 1/2 day in-class workshop session, afternoon outdoor session. Saturday the 22nd, all day trail building session. Sunday the 22nd finish up from Saturday and then ride the trail. When we get the confirmed schedule we'll need to get a list together of people planning to attend so that the TCC has some idea of what to expect and what to plan for. Make room on your calendars, it should be a good time and you'll get plenty of Pay Dirt hours.

I've had some formal trail building experience, but nothing that focused strictly on bike trails... mostly hiking trails. I'm sure a lot of the same techniques apply but I would be interested in more focused training on the mtb part of trail building.

[jburatti]

I heard from Avery and the dates are set.

I'm assuming a Friday land manager seminar. I held one of the first one of these in Ohio back with the first trail crew. It's a great resource. I'd open it up to any local land manager (corps, state, county, parks, etc) who would like some training on mountian bike and trail management and design. They can tailor the class to suit the needs of those involved - more planning, design, multi-use, user-interaction, whatever. Very informative. Minimal cost includes lunch and trail book - $15?.

The weekend session is usually a two day formal trail school open to the public. Classroom and brief trail assessment the first day, on trail traing the second day. Depending upon the meeting room the crews can run sessions up to 50 people. A second trail school will be offered the next weekend at Lake Georgetown, so i suspect this one will attract alot of folks from San Antonio region. Minimal cost, depends on how much food you want to provide. The more a celebration it is the more fun.

I've attended or organized 4 or 5 of these trail schools now and I understand the new indoor session is amazing, with slides and video. Should be great. We haven't had an IMBA trail school in central Texas in a long time.

james

[joetoeclips]

yee-haw:D

Time to plan some workdays before the race season kicks in.

[jburatti]

I applied for free Clif Bars from IMBA for the trail school weekend. One more thing taken care of. We're meeting next week right?

james