Mountain Bike Season is Here

The trails are drying out, the dirt is tacky and fast. Check at Fitzgerald’s Bicycles for the latest trail conditions!

EJ’s Trail Update 5-30-10

** National Trails Day Saturday June 5th Munger Mountain Area - Details below**

Submitted by Erik Jacobson - USFS

Hello everyone. Operation layout is now complete. We have pin flags up on Josie’s Ridge, upper Game Creek, and the lower Ridge Trail. I’m happy with the layout. Thank-you Galen and Chris P. for all your work and expertise. Thank-you Lloyd for volunteering two days on the Game Creek layout.

Next week we will commence operation project area prep work. We will be clearing the new trail corridors and micro pinning the new trails. Drew Kneeland and Lloyd Wiser start work this Thursday, and I am looking forward to working with them. We have a massive summer of trail building ahead of us, and they are the kind of hard working trail folks that we need. Clay Curly and Chris Owen are also slated to work on these projects, and I am looking forward to working with them as well.

I’ve been thinking about the Cache/Game bike race scheduled for June 21st quite a bit lately. It makes me nervous. I really feel that there will be some unsafe racing conditions if the race happens on the 21st. The race is scheduled smack dab in the middle of the Game Creek trail construction. Trail conditions are going to be very loose and dangerous. A suggestion has been made to leave the old trail open for the race. Unfortunately this cannot happen. The old trail is close to the new trail. As we dig we will be uncovering the rehab material that is needed for the old trail. We have to rehab as we go. Cache/Game races have been delayed in the past, and I feel that the race should be delayed again. Let the new trail ride in and compact. The racers should love the new trail, and a safe, new course will be show-cased.

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EJ’s Trail Update 5-23-10

Submitted by Erik Jacobson - USFS

Hello everyone. Here we go . Another trail season is upon us. Chris P., Galen, and I started this Monday on the FOP crew. Tim Farris started about half of his Jackson Trail Crew on Monday as well.

We had a meeting on Monday and discussed the upcoming massive trail building summer ahead. Tim Farris went over the schedule of the work crews during mid-June to mid July. We discussed the trial projects that we want to tackle this summer. In addition we discussed the public comments from the trails party. We are using these public comments to make an FS Decision Memo on which trail projects the public liked and that we will do.

Tim Farris has scheduled a ton of workers for this summer. He got an SCA crew for 20 days,and he got this crew for free! Nice work Tim. He also got the amazing St. Anthony’s work crew of 10 days. This is a lot of labor coming at us. My plan is to combine forces as much as we can and work with these crews. It is important for quality control and we can make these crews even larger. The SCA is a crew of 8 and St. Anthony’s is a crew of 20. Here are the crew schedules. We are booked solid for a month. I want to tie in with these crews as much as we can, but we are definitely taking some days off especially around the 4th.

SCA June 10-20 (day off on the 16th)

St. Anthony’s June 21-25
June 28 - July 2

SCA July 1-11 (day off on the 7th)

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Run & Ride

The annual Run and Ride is a benefit for local cancer patients. ALL proceeds benefit the Cancer Patient Support Fund via the St. John’s Medical Center Foundation. An event that is fun for ALL ages!

Sunday, June 6th at Wilson School 9am

The Run N Ride is a duathalon—a 5 km run combined with a 15 km ride with categories for everyone!

Look for the Fitzgerald’s Tent at the Post Race Bar-B-Que and enjoy music, food and fun!!

Thanks to Skinny Skis for putting together such a great event!

Entry Fees: Pre-registration: $15 per person
Race Day (7:30 am): $20 per person
Kids Under 11: FREE

You can register online now!

Thursday Night Road Rides are On!

· When: Every Thursday from 5/20-9/30 depart 5:30pm

· Where: Meet in front of Fitzgerald’s Bike shop 5:29pm

· Ride Length: however long everyone wants it to be. Most likely about 2hrs

· Ride Pace/Speed: NO DROP RIDE EVERY THURSDAY!

If you’ve met Tony Labbé then you you know there isn’t a better person to run the Thursday Night Ride. Here are his words:

“Since I am the leader, a better term for me is “bus driver.” This is not Tuesday Night Hammer Fest. But we will want to have some good pace lines. As I understand some of the more senior riders from the Fitzy team will try to make some cameo appearances and give some training/riding/technique tips. So if you feel like you can’t keep up (probably me anyway) then there will always be someone (again me) will slow down and ride with you. See you tomorrow FIRST ride Rain-or-Shine!”

Team Newsletter May 19, 2010

In This Issue:

• Jill Damman takes 3rd in TN
• Bear Lake Report
• Yellowstone Loop Ride
• Bike Swap this Saturday
• Team Shared Calendar & Upcoming Races

FULL NEWSLETTER

Flow Trails Rule

Here are a couple great trails that our buddy Jay Hoots was involved with creating. Check out the grom pulling up the rear! Epic!