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NEWS - SORBA MID-TN CHAPTER
The International Mountain Bicycling Association is coming to Tennessee. Anna Laxague and Jason Wells of the Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew will be in Big South Fork for a Trailbuilding School. The Crews teach “sustainable” trail building, which means building trails that last a long time and require minimal maintenance. This helps reduce trail damage, protects the environment, and enhances visitor enjoyment.
IMBA Trail Care Crew at Big South Fork
Dec. 8 & 9 2007
For more info email:
Joe Cross
Hamilton Creek getting some TLC! New trail sections
- enhanced transitions - chocked full of fun!
More info to come.
Lake Front Spur to Advanced Trail
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The Tennessee Mountain Biking Alliance (TN MTB Alliance) urges all mountain bikers to support new singletrack in the Warner Park in Nashville, Tennessee.
Nashville Metro Parks is currently accepting comments in connection with updating its Master Plan for Warner Park, which currently does not provide for any new mountain biking opportunities.
Nashville Metro Parks presently has 113 properties on over 10,570 acres, however only one Metro Park, Hamilton Creek, provides mountain bikers with an opportunity ride on natural surface singletack trails. According to their website “[i]t is the mission of the Metropolitan Board of Parks and Recreation to provide every citizen of Nashville and Davidson County with an equal opportunity for safe recreational and cultural activities within a network of parks and greenways that preserves and protects the region's natural resources”.
Take Action! Tell Metro Parks you support the construction of new mountain bike trails at Warner Park and request the current Master Plan be modified to provide mountain biking opportunities.
Additional Information
The environmental impacts of bicycling are similar to hiking and considerably less than other uses.
The Middle Tennessee chapter of the Southern Off-Road Bicycling Association (SORBA-Mid Tn) stands ready to work with Metro Parks in constructing a new mountain bike accessible trail at Warner Park.
SORBA Mid Tn has been a long history of providing volunteer trial labor at local parks with provide mountain bike accessible trail. SORBA-Mid Tn has worked with the park manager at Hamilton Creek Park and has completed hundreds of hours of trail maintenance at the park. Additionally, SORBA-Mid Tn successfully worked with park managers at Long Hunter State Park and was responsible for constructing a new mountain bike accessible trail and working with park staff to expand its current mountain bike accessible trail.
Email your comments to Jackie Jones or mail them to the Parks Department in care of Master Plan Update, Post Office Box 196340, 37219-6340.
IMBA Alert Link...
Click Here!
Contact IMBA
State Reps:
Shana & Doug
Culberson
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If you have news about SORBA that we've missed, please let us know at
President@sorbamidtn.org
We Appreciate News & Ideas About Your Favorite Trail.
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