🪓 Solution: The Dirt Shift – Trail Work Days
Let’s face it—our trails are looking lush.
Thanks to all the summer rain, the trails are starting to resemble our favorite mountain biking terrain that is the Middle Tennessee jungle. Enter the Dirt Shift—our new way to communicate trail work days in a timely manner.
Some of the deets:
🛠️ First Saturday of every month = Dirt Shift
🌿 Bonus work days = when the trails get especially unruly
☀️ Start times = 8:00 AM during the summer (let's beat that heat)
🔔 WHERE TO FIND DIRT SHIFT EVENTS:
• Homepage of our SORBA MidTN Website (future events on calendar page)
• The new SORBA MidTN App (check the Events tab)
• Our Facebook Events Page, Instagram, and wherever else we can blast it
🚨 Upcoming Dirt Shifts
🔹 Saturday 07/26 – Smith Park (Bonus Dirt Shift)
Trimming back the jungle bloom and patching those familiar wet spots.
🔸 Saturday 08/02 – Lawson Trails (formerly Hope Park)
Final push at James Lawson High School to get the trail DONE and OPEN.
Bring tools. Trim it. Then ride it.
🔹 Saturday 08/09 – Cane Ridge (Bonus Dirt Shift)
We’ll be cutting back growth and maybe tackling some bridge repair. You in?
🔸 Sunday 08/10 (11am) – Chickasaw Trace
Help out NICA & Columbia Cycling Club with a trim. Teamwork makes the trail work.
✍️ How You Can Help:
While this message finds every one of you, our lovely subscribers and members, if you would like to be MORE involved, please go to our website to sign up to volunteer, and please remember to log those hours!
🟢 Sign Up to Volunteer
🟢 Log Your Volunteer Hours
💡 Dirt Shift Tips:
• Dress like you’re bushwhacking in July (because you are)
• Bug spray. Bug spray. Bug spray.
• Bring your own trimmers, loppers, and gloves if you’ve got ‘em
• We always have light work available—no trail skills required
• Bonus points if you show up with a weed eater (you trail MVP, you)
The trails don’t fix themselves—but with your help, they stay awesome.
Thanks for being part of the magic that keeps SORBA MidTN rolling. We notice and appreciate every single one of you.
