Written by Scooter Sutterer Despite the threat of rain 84 volunteers came out to Rocky Point for the March 7th Big Dig. The goal was to work on a reroute of Joy of Climbing. The old trail was a rutted straight shot up a steep hill on the edge of a clearcut. Too steep for … Read More
Originally posted at WriteTek Northwest Written by Jim LeMonds It was a classic Growlers Gulch build with 136 volunteers coming out to work on several big projects. The total eclipsed the previous record of 130. Here’s what got done – Carnage – The line is completely buffed out. It will be muddy and soft for … Read More
Written by Jered Bogli Update from our work on Saturday 12/21. The Pipeline – aka the ridge, aka the connector is DONE! Overall the trail now drains 100% better. Segments of the trail were re-routed to help accomplish this, we laid lots of gravel to keep mud off of bikes, built up rollers and pump … Read More
Written by Daniel Beaman On Saturday 12/21 10 people donned rain gear and braved the weather to spread gravel and cut in another section of the south side trail, Butter Knife. Great comradery, high spirits, and love for the Rocky Point trails led to a very effective team and some great work. Build parties continue … Read More
Written by Tyler B. Hogstrom Waking up early on a weekend to the patterning of hard rain on your roof might give you the last reason you need to swear off mountain biking for one more week or put your skis in the car and head for snow. NWTA members were out in force … Read More
Written by Jim Lemonds Five people showed up for a unique trail flagging clinic taught by myself and Dave LeMonds at Growlers on Saturday November 30th. This was a hands-on clinic focusing on layout of a new line nearly a mile in length that they hope to see roughed in at the next Growlers dig … Read More
A small but dedicated group of volunteers arrived at the Sandy Ridge parking lot early Sunday morning to a abundant amount of coffee and donuts, generously provided by event sponsor Cyclepath PDX. With the weather forecast in flux, a number of registered participants never arrived, but we still had over a dozen folks who honored … Read More
Written by Tim Matthews email: [email protected] What started as a foggy Saturday mid November morning quickly turned into a beautiful day with sun beaming through the trees as seven awesome volunteers began a fun day of brushing along the beautiful Wilson River Trail. After hiking a little over two miles to get out to the … Read More
The trails at Sandy Ridge are a year round riding destination & with the amount of traffic it receives NWTA’s maintenance efforts consist of multiple work parties in both the Spring & the Fall. On Sunday November 17th 35 volunteers came together for the 2nd work party of the Fall season to work on repairing … Read More
Written by Scooter Sutterer We had some great weather for our latest and largest Rocky Point build party. 71 people came out to work on the north side trails on Saturday November 16th. Two extensions to existing trails and a new connector trail linking the north and south trail systems resulted in over a mile … Read More