By Jim LeMonds Forty volunteers came out on June 3rd for what has become an annual maintenance day at Coldwater Lake on the north side of Mount St. Helens. The effort, which was sponsored by Northwest Trail Alliance, was successful to say the least as the crew of 40 was able to clean 9.5 miles … Read More
Written by Nell Stamper, NWTA Board Member What a race weekend at the Coast, and what great weather to kick off the first ever Ride the Dirt Wave Race Series at Klootchy Creek. On Saturday, there were guided rides, a Transition bike demo and SRAM tent, a beer garden and a food truck. On Sunday, … Read More
Written by Juntu Oberg, NWTA Board Member After spending the summer of 2022 observing the launch of our successful mountain bike skills camps at Gateway Green, our Lead Trail Steward, Tim Copeman, noticed that the skills area in the park needed an upgrade. He wanted the skills area to be more utilized, and found it … Read More
Written by Juntu Oberg, NWTA Board Member NWTA kicked off celebrating Earth Month with Friends of Gateway Green (FoGG) on Saturday, April 8th, with a trash pick-up event at Gateway Green. Volunteers split into groups focused on picking up trash at the park and the I-205 Multi-use Path that provides access to the park. NWTA … Read More
Written by Elaine Bothe, NWTA Instructor Chilly but no rain during 2023’s first Kids’ Ride at L.L. Stub Stewart State Park! Stub Stewart State Park has quite the range of trails to suit every level of rider! At the NWTA’s first Kids’ Ride of 2023, a good crew showed up with all the right layers … Read More
Written by Nancy Stone, Education & Sustainability Director ([email protected]) The Trail Sustainability Institute (TSI) travels 6-7 months out of the year, holding Trail Schools at different trail systems within 60 miles of the Portland area. Each location boasts different ecosystems, soil types, forests, and land management restrictions/guidelines. So although the Trail School curriculum is consistent, oftentimes, … Read More
The cold and snow didn’t stop seven hardy NWTA sawyers from a massive project at Klootchy Creek on Saturday, March 25. The volunteers showed up at Klootchy Creek to clear hundreds upon hundreds of matted, snow-covered trees left on the ground from a commercial thinning project. The slash was 4-5 feet high in a freshly … Read More
Written by Andy Janksy ([email protected]) Thanks to your membership support, NWTA is in the process of finalizing eight new miles of trail on the North Side of Rocky Point! Through a combination of volunteer machine operations, hand building, and hiring a professional trail builder, we were able to rebuild the North side trails that were … Read More
Written by Chloé Hammond-Bradley On Saturday, March 18, a couple of crews went out to Rocky Point. One of the crews, which had nine members worked on some drainage release and treadway buffing for an old trail called Strasser! This is a trail that will hopefully be opening up in May 2023. It has an … Read More
NWTA members are familiar with the annual “tradition” of collecting your bike bands and parking passes for Rocky Point access. For NWTA, using the bike bands and parking tags has been expensive and required a lot of time to manage. On the member side, we know that this requirement came with carving out the time … Read More