Trail Sisters lean into Cornering Clinic

Focusing in on improving even the most basic skills, like cornering, can have a tremendous effect on your ride experience and confidence level. This proved to be true for the 14 women that showed up on Sunday January 26th for the Beginner Level Cornering Clinic. After a breakdown of 5 key points to follow, each rider … Read More

TSI’s Trail School at Klootchy Creek Trails

Holding a Trail School in January on the coast can be a chancy roll of the weather dice. Apparently the sun gods favor the bold- 7 trail stewards were welcomed with sunshine and a rare, dry day. Our focus was on the brand new machine-built Upper Chris Cross trail. Due to the generous rainfall on … Read More

Leadership

The NWTA leadership team is comprised of Staff and a Board of Directors. The Board is an all-volunteer, working Board of Directors. In addition to the governance responsibilities of a nonprofit, each Board member has a set of responsibilities they oversee to advance the stewardship, advocacy and programming work of the organization. Get to know … Read More

Advocacy

NWTA actively works with land managers and partners to advocate for access to the outdoors through mountain biking. Our vision is to not only maintain existing access, but to support efforts to bring new off-road cycling trails of all types to our communities. A primary advocacy goal of NWTA to also make the mountain bike … Read More

Trail Projects

Start with the type of trail projects that NWTA takes on. Give some stats on trailwork over the years (infographic) overview of a few premiere trail projects. The rest can have info in their respective trail pages To find out more about how to get invovled with NWTA’s trailwork projects, see here: Get involved with … Read More

Sponsors

A massive thank you to all of our NWTA sponsors who help make what we do possible! Sponsorship dollars support trail maintenance, stewardship education, programming, and more! Sponsors are also help make membership go further by supporting event, hosting on-site membership meetings, and contributing swag for member raffles and more. Further, many sponsors are always … Read More

Learn

Trail Sustainability Institute Trail Sustainability Institute, or TSI, was developed to promote the coexistence of conservation and recreation.  TSI fosters education, conservation, and a culture of land stewardship in the mountain bike/off-road cycling community. With 35 years of sustainable trail building and maintenance experience, Northwest Trail Alliance (NWTA) created TSI as a way to grow … Read More