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
Written by Chloe Hammond-Bradley The Trail Sustainability Institute (TSI) held their first benching clinic this last Saturday. This clinic focused on how to cut in as well as re-establish a bench on a trail. When building and maintaining a trail, you focus on four areas; your line, flow, bench cuts and drainage. Bench cuts, or … Read More
November 12 and 13 was a BUSY weekend for Northwest Trail Alliance volunteers and members! All told, there was over 400 hours of volunteer work put in over the course of the weekend spread across 6 different locations including a night ride social at Stub Stewart. Here are some highlights. FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS AT STUB … Read More
Written by Isabella Taylor The second to last ride in the River City Bicycles // NW Trail Sisters summer ride collaboration was a night to be remembered! As everyone convened around the lookout point while waiting for the group huddle to begin, the early-evening sun cast its rays across the hills surrounding Scappoose and set the … Read More
Over the last year, most of the property on the north side of Rocky Point road was logged, affecting all of the original forested trails there (except RP United and Andyland). NWTA has been planning for the eventual clearcut of this area for a while, and has already started to rebuild the area. The trails … Read More
Weyerhaeuser has re-opened recreational properties in WA and OR effective 9/12/2022. Rocky Point is open. Please check for Rocky Point updates at https://www.nw-trail.org/rocky-point Please check with appropriate land management agencies for all other trail systems.
Written by Elaine Bothe, NWTA Instructor “What should I carry in my pack?” was a question a student asked during the NWTA Intro to Ride Leader Training session held on August 7, 2022, at Rocky Point. A sold-out group of six riders joined the class on a warm Sunday in August. Sticking to a particularly … Read More
Written by Allie Hurtgen, Certified Mountain Bike Coach The Trail Sisters cannot get enough of Fanny’s Yer Aunt! On Sunday, July 24th, we got together for an intermediate/advanced skills clinic at Rocky Point. We started the morning working on skills that the trails at Rocky Point command: braking, steep descending, ratcheting, and low ready position. … Read More