CAMBA Mountain Bike Trails Blog
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Monday, August 30, 2010
Thursday, June 17, 2010
IMPORTANT MATCHING DONATIONS NEEDED
$2,000 Challenge Remaining to be Raised
Please help CAMBA its singletrack trail building initiative by making a donation to the “Save the Trails” fund facilitated by the Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival. When you do, Trek Bicycles will match your donation.
The Save the Trails fund is a program that allows mountain bikers to make donations to be directed to support CAMBA’s trail development efforts. Trek has generously agreed to match up to $10,000 of these donations. To date this year $8,000 has been received. That leaves $2,000 to be raised in order to qualify for the full matching donation from Trek.
Make a Donation Online
You can help CAMBA reach this goal by making a generous donation to the Save the Trails fund. To do so please send a check payable to Save the Trails and mail it to Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival, P.O. Box 267, Cable, WI 54821.
As you may know, CAMBA has been building an extensive network of singletrack trails in northern Sawyer and southern Bayfield Counties. In just the last four years close to 50 miles of new trails have been constructed. This is an ambitious and expensive proposition, however, costing $3,500 to $4,500 per mile!
Your assistance is greatly needed and greatly appreciated. Thank you for helping us make the Chequamegon Area one of the best places to ride a fat tire bike in the country.
Feel free to forward this appeal to all of your mountain biking friends, business associates and others who you feel might support this effort.
Thanks.
Please help CAMBA its singletrack trail building initiative by making a donation to the “Save the Trails” fund facilitated by the Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival. When you do, Trek Bicycles will match your donation.
The Save the Trails fund is a program that allows mountain bikers to make donations to be directed to support CAMBA’s trail development efforts. Trek has generously agreed to match up to $10,000 of these donations. To date this year $8,000 has been received. That leaves $2,000 to be raised in order to qualify for the full matching donation from Trek.
Make a Donation Online
You can help CAMBA reach this goal by making a generous donation to the Save the Trails fund. To do so please send a check payable to Save the Trails and mail it to Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival, P.O. Box 267, Cable, WI 54821.
As you may know, CAMBA has been building an extensive network of singletrack trails in northern Sawyer and southern Bayfield Counties. In just the last four years close to 50 miles of new trails have been constructed. This is an ambitious and expensive proposition, however, costing $3,500 to $4,500 per mile!
Your assistance is greatly needed and greatly appreciated. Thank you for helping us make the Chequamegon Area one of the best places to ride a fat tire bike in the country.
Feel free to forward this appeal to all of your mountain biking friends, business associates and others who you feel might support this effort.
Thanks.
Monday, August 31, 2009
More Fun on the CAMBA Trails
Beth Gauper has written about her travels throughout the Midwest for the past 15 years. Check out her account of her experiences on the CAMBA trails on her blog: www.midwestweekends.com .
Friday, August 28, 2009
All the Way from London!
Recently three of us drove from London, Ontario to ride the trails in your area. London is approximately a 12-13 hour drive. During our 4 day stay we rode the Seeley cluster (Makwa trail), Cable cluster (Ojibwa trail) and the Namakagon cluster (Rock Lake trail - complete). What we rode as incredible and the amount of work is very impressive. Some of the best riding we have done in a 12/13 hour drive zone from our location. During our rides we were fortunate to talk to crews working on the trails and clearing some of the downed trees, great people.
Everyone we met during our rides on the trails, off the trails, anywhere were very friendly. Recommendations from the trail crews included the Angry Minnow Pub, The Rivers Eatery and The New Moon bike shop, all of which we visited and supported. The Angry Minnow saw slightly more support.
We plan on visiting again in the future and will pass on this great ride to those in this area. Keep up the great work and thanks for the fantastic trails.
Cheers
Gary Cambridge, Mark Wilkinson, Dave Harrison
Everyone we met during our rides on the trails, off the trails, anywhere were very friendly. Recommendations from the trail crews included the Angry Minnow Pub, The Rivers Eatery and The New Moon bike shop, all of which we visited and supported. The Angry Minnow saw slightly more support.
We plan on visiting again in the future and will pass on this great ride to those in this area. Keep up the great work and thanks for the fantastic trails.
Cheers
Gary Cambridge, Mark Wilkinson, Dave Harrison
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Next Steps in Namakagon
Namakagon Project Leader John Leighton recently submitted this report.
The logging operation east of FR203 is complete and we have started work on the trail to N17. From what we have seen so far the loggers were very careful with the flag line, placing their own flags to make it more obvious. They also removed slash from the vicinity of the flag line.
The Forest Service called me yesterday to confirm that going forward there will be a no-cut buffer zone maintained for our trails of 50 feet either side of the trail, and an additional 150 feet tapering from there. This is great news especially for the area of mature hardwoods that are so incredibly beautiful.
The logging operation east of FR203 is complete and we have started work on the trail to N17. From what we have seen so far the loggers were very careful with the flag line, placing their own flags to make it more obvious. They also removed slash from the vicinity of the flag line.
The Forest Service called me yesterday to confirm that going forward there will be a no-cut buffer zone maintained for our trails of 50 feet either side of the trail, and an additional 150 feet tapering from there. This is great news especially for the area of mature hardwoods that are so incredibly beautiful.
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