Join us while we complete the long-awaited Pine Creek Trail Extension. Help us finalize the Pine Creek Extension Project. This trail winds along a historic lahar, at the base of Mt St Helens with views of Mt Adams. MEETING LOCATION: 46.163349, -122.092253 Load into your GPS before you lose service. You will see NWTA signs on the … Read More
NWTA’s annual CLIMB Campout once again brought together an incredible mix of trail work, riding, camping, and community for a weekend that perfectly captured what NWTA is all about. With perfect weather, more than 50 attendees, and a campground full of mountain bikers willing to make questionable decisions under headlamps, this year’s campout delivered a … Read More
Join NWTA this Saturday while we work on improving the skills area at Gateway Green. Come out to Gateway Green, Saturday May 16th to work on improvements in the super popular skills area. We have loads of fresh dirt just waiting to be made into something awesome. No experience necessary, just a curiousity to learn. … Read More
Yes, trail stewardship is about maintaining trails. It’s also about building community, passing down knowledge, and inspiring the next generation to care for the places they ride. That spirit was fully on display at Rocky Point on April 26 as NWTA hosted a special “Take Your Kids to Trail Work” day focused on introducing families … Read More
Join Orogenesis and the Northwest Trail Alliance deep in the Gifford Pinchot this June to finish our maintenance work on the Tillicum Trail—have you ridden it yet? Tillicum is one of the most primitive trails remaining on the 18omi Loowit Tier we launched last summer. Let’s finish tuning it up! A historic and surprisingly fun … Read More
KLOOTCHY CREEK TRAIL WORK PARTY Focus: 💙 PaceMaker 💙 improve, define and refine! ━━━━━━━━━━ 🔧 What We’re Doing • Benching • Raking • Smoothing • Shaping ━━━━━━━━━━ 🧰 What to Bring • Gloves + sturdy shoes (required) • Water & snacks • McLeods, Rogue hoes, rakes, shovels (if you have them) • PPE ━━━━━━━━━━ 🍻 After Party Ride • … Read More
Come out and help improve the tread on Strasser! We will be widening tread and fixing ruts in places that need it, fixing bottom portions of drops/downhills, fixing drainage issues, and repairing divots left from the elk. Bryan H. will be leading the dig! Safety meeting starts at 9 a.m at the Rocky Point gazebo. … Read More
What started as a school service project turned into something much bigger for two local students, Aaron and Alston. With a shared love of mountain biking—and a willingness to get a little silly for a good cause—the boys combined hands-on volunteer work with creative fundraising to support Northwest Trail Alliance (NWTA). Over the course of … Read More
Join other parents and kiddos at Rocky Point to get kids excited about trail building and spending time in the woods.
Another small but focused crew showed up at Hagg Lake and kept the momentum going on a critical re-route project. This dig day centered on the section between Turtle (7) and Gandolf’s (8), where volunteers continued shaping a new trail alignment to replace a damaged portion of the Hagg Lake Loop Trail. The primary focus … Read More