IMBA

UPDATE 9/27 10am: Trail Builders school is this Saturday and NWTA has received 48 registrations!  Only 2 slots left!!

Training is on Saturday, October 2nd. registration required.  Breakfast and lunch PROVIDED.  Space is limited to 50 volunteers.

There's other events happening as part of this visit, including a group ride at L.L. "Stub" Stewart State Park to tour the newly opened Stub Mountain Bike Area.

More info about event(s) as well as how to Sign-up to attend this excellent trailbuilders school is here -- http://nw-trail.org/node/2315

Montana just lost a lot of access in the Hyalite area so IMBA is doing a special fundraiser and they're giving out some sick socks for anyone who throws down $35 or more (expensive socks, but hell, you can feel good about yourself everytime you put them on to go ride!)  COME ON, I know you have that much cash rolling around your bank account.  If you don't, well, sell some used bike parts because surely you have some of those rolling around the house!  I just donated, who's next? 

Maybe Jeff from Camas wants to donate since he's so concerned about local trail access (inside joke.)

Here's a link:  http://www.imba.com/legalfund/

I heard from a couple of riders this past weekend that there was a BLM public notice posted at the trailhead at Homestead Rd (the paved road you ride up to access Hide & Seek) indicating closure of BLM land "along the Southern Boundary of the Bull Run Management Unit (BRMU) and within the Little Sandy River".  It also mentions affected area "T2S R6E sec 13, 14, 15".

I called the BLM office and spoke to the contact for the notice.  She (Cindy Enstrom) confirmed that this refers to only the watershed land that borders the land the trails are on.  The trails are definitely open.